[Vail 01] • Primal Fear

A legal battle equal to *Presumed Innocent*.

A nightmare of terror and psychopathology to match *The Silence of the Lambs*.

Martin Vail, Chicago's most brilliant lawyer, has been set up by his enemies to defend a case he cannot win.

Young Aaron Stampler was caught red-handed after a murder that had the city reeling. He looks bound to fry, but he swears he's innocent. In a desperate gamble for justice, Vail must reach deep into the recesses of a killer's mind, to flush out a monster of infinite cunning and evil. Explosive, haunting and brilliantly suspenseful, *Primal Fear* is a truly terrifying read.