NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address�an audiocassette recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice chanting: �Bad love. Bad love. Don�t give me the bad love.� For Alex Delaware the tape is the first intimation that he is about to enter a living nightmare. Others soon follow: disquieting laughter echoing over a phone line that suddenly goes dead, and a chilling act of trespass and vandalism. He has become the target of a carefully orchestrated campaign of vague threats and intimidation rapidly building to a crescendo as harassment turns to terror, mischief to madness. �A wonderful, roller-coaster ride . . . a guaranteed page-turner.��USA Today With the help of his friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, Alex uncovers a series of violent deaths that may follow a diabolical pattern. And if he fails to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker�s mind games, Alex will be the next to die.