Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few people that could ignore it.
Detective Robert Miller is assigned to the case, and rapidly uncover a complication. The victims do not officially exist. Their personal details do not register on any known systems. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face truths so far-removed from his own reality that he begins to fear for his life.
Vast in scope, A SIMPLE ACT OF VIOLENCE is an intriguing and powerful novel of greed and the insidious nature of corruption. It is also a story of love and trust that somehow managed to survive the very worst that the world could throw at it.
Roger Jon Ellory, Birmingham, 1965, es un reconocido autor británico de novela de suspense. Pese a su interés por el diseño gráfico y la fotografía, trabajó para una empresa de transporte de mercancías antes de dedicarse plenamente a su pasión por la literatura. Bajo la influencia de escritores como Arthur Conan Doyle o Stephen King, inició su carrera como escritor con la novela Candlemoth (2003), flamante finalista de los premios anuales de la Asociación de Escritores de Novela Policíaca del Reino Unido.
