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Stealing Faces
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On May 21, 1999, barnesandnoble.com hosted me in an hour-long online chat about Stealing Faces.
John Cray has a secret. For twelve years he has stalked and kidnapped women, setting them loose in the mountains of eastern Arizona, hunting them like animals, and taking their lives. He has left no clues. He is suspected by no one. Or so he thinks. But now ...
John Cray has a problem. Because somebody -- a woman whose name he doesn't know -- is stalking him. She follows him when he makes his nightly rounds in Tucson. She watches him on busy streetcorners and in shadowy restaurants. She seems to know his secret. But if so, why hasn't she gone to the police? What is she up to? And how can he stop her?
John Cray has a plan. He'll turn the tables on his mysterious pursuer. He will become the predator, and she -- the prey. Once she's in his clutches, she'll tell him who she is and what she's after. And then she will die, and he'll be safe once more.
But even Cray isn't prepared to confront the truth when he discovers it -- or to deal with the shattering implications of a past he had thought long buried and an obsessive madness he cannot control ...
Read the prologue of Stealing Faces
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In May, 1999, Stealing Faces became the first Signet book to make its debut as a downloadable electronic book compatible with Gemstar eBook technology (formerly Rocket eBook). |
In mid-September of 1999, six months after the electronic premiere of Stealing Faces, a mass-market paperback edition was issued by Signet Books. It's now in its fourth printing.
| A French
edition of Stealing Faces, translated by Veronique
David-Marescot and published by Editions Pygmalion of
Paris, is now available as a large-format softcover
bookin France and parts of Canada. I've been told by a
couple of French readers that the translation is very
good. One amusing thing about the book is that the publisher added footnotes to explain some expressions that would otherwise baffle the French readership -- terms like "burrito," "Rodeo Drive," "Creedence Clearwater Revival," and even "O.J.," as in O.J. Simpson. (Surely everyone has heard of the Simpson case?) Next time you're in a Mexican restaurant, try ordering a "crepe de mais fourree et frite." It's a taco. |
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Advertising and promotional efforts on behalf of Stealing Faces included ...
National radio advertising
Print advertising in USA Today
Print advertising in Mystery Scene magazine
In addition, Stealing Faces was ...
a selection of the Doubleday Book Club
and
a Featured Selection of the Mystery Guild
Signet Books' 30-second radio ad forStealing Faces is downloadable here as a RealPlayer file. The first few seconds of the clip are silent, but be patient. The scary sounds will come!
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