Bloodline Run

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About Bloodline Run

A disturbed man searches for his missing girlfriend in Baker's Jekyll-and-Hyde-inspired debut crime novel.Peter Longer, the son of an abusive preacher, has another personality inside him-one he calls Jason, who tells him to dobad things-and he believes the alter ego to be a result of a family curse. The 49-year-old man also believes that he'll dieat 50, the same age that his father did; a spirit woman known as the Wren, he thinks, will come to punish him for the thingshe's done. He was committed to a state institution as a teenager after killing a woman, but he managed to escape and wasaccepted, under a false name, to Columbia University. Later, he pursued a series of blue-collar jobs out West. Eventually,in Colorado, he strolled into a church on a snowy morning, looking for warmth, and met Sarah Montrose, a friendly youngwoman with a trust fund. The two fell in love and Peter found himself with a luxury apartment, a job polishing resumes, anda good woman in his life. He was convinced, in fact, that Sarah cured him of his family curse. Then, after two years ofhappiness, Sarah disappeared in 2016. The cops got involved, but the case quickly went cold, leaving only Peter andRichard Redd, a lone Denver police detective, committed to finding her two years later: "I continued to search for Sarah,"Peter narrates. "For without her, I was doomed. She had protected me from the cruelty, the savagery the bloodline bredinto the men who carried the seed." When Redd comes across a name related to a different murder-someone namedJason Bane-it becomes clear that the story that Peter has been telling himself may not be as straightforward as it seems.

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