Final Victim by Stephen J. Cannell

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Stephen J. Cannell
• Title: Final Victim
• Publisher: ‎ William Morrow and Company, Inc.; First Edition (January 1, 1996)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 405 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0688147755
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0688147754
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.65 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.75 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

Leonard Land is a seven-foot-tall, completely hairless computer genius, wired to the cyber-punk subculture of Death Metal and Satan worship. He is also a twisted, multipersonality maniac who is systematically murdering women. When he is The Rat, he is smart and cunning; when he becomes The Wind Minstrel, he is God and the Devil. The Rat only covets women; The Wind Minstrel possesses them.

Hot on Land's trail is a formidable, if unlikely, trio of heroes: John Lockwood – a renegade U.S. Customs agent who never met a rule he didn't break or a regulation he didn't violate; Karen "Awesome" Dawson – a beautiful and brainy forensic psychologist who never met a challenge she couldn't overcome; and Malavida Chacone, a street-wise master hacker who never met a computer program he couldn't crack.

They pursue their quarry through the convoluted corridors of cyberspace and deep into the Florida swamps. But when Land discovers who has been infiltrating his programs, his nemesis becomes his prey.

The hunters are now the hunted, and they must stop Land before he claims…the Final Victim.

About the Author:

Stephen J. Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist, and occasional actor, and the founder of Cannell Entertainment (formerly Stephen J. Cannell Productions) and the Cannell Studios.

Cannell created or co-created several successful TV series from the 1970s to the 1990s. Creations included The Rockford Files, The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, 21 Jump Street, and The Commish.

He was an Emmy winner and was awarded The Eye – Lifetime Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America.

Cannell’s success was made even more remarkable by the fact that he suffered from extreme dyslexia.

He died in 2010 from complications with melanoma.