Mortal Fear

Mortal Fear
Greg Iles

The New York Times No.1 bestseller Greg Iles keeps the pages turning in this ‘splendidly creepy, compulsive’ (Daily Telegraph) serial killer thriller.By day, Harper Cole is a successful commodities trader working from his home in the isolated Mississippi Delta. By night he is a system operator for EROS, a sexually explicit on-line service that caters for the erotic appetites of an exclusive clientele. But Harper's secret life is about to be shattered when a twisted serial killer uses EROS to select and stalk his female victims. And suddenly he finds himself a prime suspect in the eyes of the FBI.In order to clear his name Harper knows he must lure the real killer into the open. Impersonating a woman online, someone he once loved, he begins to play a very dangerous game with a psychopath. A psychopath that could destroy the very fabric of Harper's world…

GREG ILES

Mortal Fear

For my wife

Dr. Carrie McGee Iles

The light at both ends of the tunnel.

Table of Contents

Cover (#ub76e1f6c-689e-5036-a97b-ee1befee14ae)

Title Page (#ua11eae4b-a94d-5c64-80cb-b7eb079050c0)

Dedication (#u777d45eb-b84c-5e04-83f6-d8e95a130e69)

Prologue (#u76428c3c-6905-5e93-a7fd-4eb6482b4186)

Chapter One (#ua8577a85-2cb1-59c8-978b-b78c55734d59)

Chapter Two (#ubc8ed932-de12-5d5b-824e-193b51520f72)

Chapter Three (#u90f084ab-2c95-57aa-9464-a294c2ff2a0c)

Chapter Four (#u7dfb1e6c-4226-5bb4-afc8-11bec28481b9)

Chapter Five (#ueae5d56e-b348-5449-90c0-6ac2ec99eda5)

Chapter Six (#u2bd380d0-8a4b-5f59-a6cc-2a49c0056d8e)

Chapter Seven (#u1f5b4a54-85c0-5bc3-9898-e0273acf042c)

Chapter Eight (#uf83a8a9f-13c5-58d6-b5c9-8fcbd241b295)

Chapter Nine (#ud25e4bdb-dd7f-5b21-8d81-ce3ab1154e6a)

Chapter Ten (#u1fc58178-c275-5d77-a54a-869c696b89b4)

Chapter Eleven (#uf1882ebc-b5d5-5a8f-9033-265379a64803)

Chapter Twelve (#u30e5da8b-1304-5631-880e-696a2fc7ed6b)

Chapter Thirteen (#u9a10ef90-fdf5-5b94-acb0-3aa09da8992d)

Chapter Fourteen (#uac30f8ae-c5e2-5099-879a-694f849bcc20)

Chapter Fifteen (#u7b459b4c-ab59-5ead-ac20-28eb1642c0dd)

Chapter Sixteen (#ua62db256-4250-53de-8da0-a6600810adc0)

Chapter Seventeen (#u3e2955dc-431a-5af2-a0f6-ed5b7fbd800a)

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