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One of the most popular gay
authors of today! Light Before Day, a
dark new thriller of revenge and sexual obsession
from New York Times best-selling author
Christopher Rice.
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n California's Central Valley, an explosion of white-hot
methamphetamine rips through a trailer, its blinding flash
killing a dedicated schoolteacher in search of a student
whose life is in danger...
In West Hollywood, a young reporter discovers that
a Marine helicopter pilot visited the gay ghetto - just
days before he sent his chopper spiraling into the Pacific
Ocean...
And in the wilds of California's Coast Ranges, a mercilessly
angry young woman pursues the mythic killer she believes
has murdered her mother...
So begins Light Before Day, a dark new
thriller of revenge and sexual obsession from New York
Times best-selling author Christopher Rice.
Twenty-six-year-old journalist Adam Murphy is chasing
a career-making story when he is suspiciously fired by
the magazine that employs him. Scarred by failure of a
recent relationship, and haunted by the violent death of
his alcoholic mother, Adam finds himself cut adrift in
the city of West Hollywood. Determined to expose the facts
behind the suicide of the Marine pilot, he discovers that
his estranged lover has vanished without a trace, and that
his disappearance matches several other recent missing
persons cases. Working with his new boss, James Wilton
- a famously curmudgeonly mystery novelist with his own
battle scars, who is eager for a new case to write about
- Adam begins to suspect a serial killer is preying on
the city's young gay men.
Meanwhile, Caroline Hughes, an intense young surgical
resident, scours central California, also seeking a serial
killer: an avenger of such legendary violence he seems
more demon than man.
The truth that Adam, Caroline, and James Wilton discover
is far more diabolical than they could ever have imagined.
From the mansion-strung Hollywood Hills to the drug-ravaged
hamlets of the Central Valley, they enter a labyrinth that
leads to the darkest core of the human heart - uncovering
a sonspiracy so extraordinary that it threatens both their
sanity and their lives.
Light Before Day is a riveting and complex
mystery set within a gothic twenty-first-century California
landscape that Rice makes his own.
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