His epic masterwork 'Speaks the Nightbird,' a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as 'deeply satisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul.' Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth-century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identity -- and over Matthew's own uncertain destiny. The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life, noise, and commerce. Who snuffed out the good man's life with the slash of a blade on a midnight street? The local printmaster has labeled the fiend 'the Masker,' adding fuel to a volatile mystery...while young law clerk Matthew...
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His epic masterwork 'Speaks the Nightbird,' a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as 'deeply satisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul.' Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth-century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identity -- and over Matthew's own uncertain destiny. The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life, noise, and commerce. Who snuffed out the good man's life with the slash of a blade on a midnight street? The local printmaster has labeled the fiend 'the Masker,' adding fuel to a volatile mystery...while young law clerk Matthew Corbett has other obsessions in mind. Earnest and hardworking, Matthew spends his precious spare time attempting to vindicate the abuses he witnessed growing up in the Sainted John Home for Boys, at the ha
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