Fear Itself by Jonathan Nasaw (Paperback)

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“WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST FEAR?

FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender is strapping on his non-regulation calfskin shoulder holster one last time. It’s his last day on the job.

But that day a letter addressed to Pender arrives at FBI headquarters. Dorie Bell is afraid. Last year she attended a convention for Persons with Specific Phobia Disorder. Since then, several of her fellow attendees have died under strange circumstances… Carl Polander, for example. He had acrophobia. Fear of heights. So why on earth would he have jumped from the twelfth floor of a building? Mara Agajanian had haemophobia. Fear of blood. So how could she have managed to cut her own wrists in the bathtub?

Dorie wants Pender to look into these cases. She herself suffers from prosoponophobia. Fear of masks. Dorie suspects there may be a twisted serial killer on the loose. Someone who preys mercilessly on people’s worst phobias. Someone who, quite literally, enjoys scaring his victims to death.

Dorie’s right. But she has no idea just how close to her the killer is …

And it looks as though Agent Pender’s long-awaited retirement might have to be postponed for a while.”