The Analyst A Novel

Happy fifty third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death.Dr. Frederick Starks, a New York psychoanalyst, has just received a mysterious, threatening letter. Now he finds himself in the middle of a horrific game designed by a man who calls himself Rumplestiltskin. The rules: in two weeks, Starks must guess his tormentor's identity. If Starks succeeds, he goes free. If he fails, Rumplestiltskin will destroy, one by one, fifty-two of Dr. Starks' loved onesunless the good doctor agrees to kill himself. In a blistering race against time, Starks' is at the mercy of a psychopath's devious game of vengeance. He must find a way to stop the madmanbefore he himself is driven mad. . . .

<b>John Katzenbach</b> has written seven previous novels: the Edgar Award-nominated <i>In the Heat of the Summer</i>, which was adapted for the screen as <i>The Mean Season</i>; the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>The Traveler</i>; <i>Day of Reckoning</i>; <i>Just Cause</i>, which was also made into a movie; <i>The Shadow Man</i> (another Edgar nominee); <i>State of Mind, </i>and <i>Hart’s War</i>. Mr. Katzenbach has been a criminal court reporter for <i>The Miami Herald</i> and <i>Miami News</i> and a featured writer for the <i>Herald’s Tropic</i> magazine. He lives in western Massachusetts.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>