Mortal Fear
By day, Harper Cole is a successful commodities trader working from his home in the isolated Mississippi Delta. But at 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...
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By day, Harper Cole is a successful commodities trader working from his home in the isolated Mississippi Delta. But at 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, and 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780340686010 (0340686014)
Publish date: June 5th 1997
Publisher: Hodder Paperback
Edition language: English
Series: Mississippi (#1)
While, yes, the technology is dated, this is pretty believable for the period it was written in (for fiction levels of believable). Harper Cole is a successful commodities trader working from home, also working as a SysOp for EROS a electronic sex site. At the cutting edge of the time. He realise...
Harper Cole is a commodities trader who serves as a systems operator for an exclusive erotic online service at night. The business caters to a rich and famous clientele but recently a stranger has infiltrated the network security and has brutally murdered six clients. Harper comes under suspicion ...
Oh my, EROS? Can we be more subtle? Sorry, i've read some good material from Greg Iles but this one is just too dated and exploitative to keep me going.
I have too long of a to-read list to justify continuing to waste my time with this book.
Yay! Finally finished it. While I can appreciate the quality of the writing - Greg Iles writes beautifully - I struggled to finish this. I've come to the conclusion that I really don't like whole serial killer stalking vulnerable women thing, so this subject matter was a bit too icky for me. On the ...