Mind/Reader

by Brian Freemantle

As a vicious serial killer leaves a trail of dismembered bodies across Europe, Claudine Carter, Britain's leading psychological profiler, teams up with a forensic pathologist and a computer wizard to track the murderer, only to become the next target of a ruthless madman. 10,000 first printing.

475 pages, Hardcover

First published July 15, 1998

About the author

Aka John Maxwell, Jonathan Evans, Jack Winchester, Harry Asher and Richard Gant.

Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muffin and won Freemantle international recognition—he would go on to publish fourteen titles in the series.

Freemantle has written dozens of other novels, including two featuring Sebastian Holmes, an illegitimate son of Sherlock Holmes, and the Cowley and Danilov series, about an American FBI agent and a Russian militia detective who work together to comabt organized crime in the post-Cold War world. Freemantle lives and works in London, Englad.

Reviews

[Florence Buchholz · Rating 1 out of 5]

I picked this one to read because I enjoyed "Little Gray Mice" by the same author. Big mistake. Page after page after page about European Union politics. I didn't care about any of the characters. It held no suspense for me. The lurid details were sickening and unnecessary.

[Cindy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is not a "must read". When this book was published, women were still struggling to be accepted in male dominated workplaces. I'm going to try another book by this author just as a comparison to see if there are any changes in his style and point of view.