Burning Season: A Serial Killer Thriller

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About Burning Season: A Serial Killer Thriller

A former FBI agent hunts a serial killer with his new partner--an AI. At a small California college, the chancellor is impaled on a stone gargoyle high above the campus. In the cold waters beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, a woman's body is pulled from the bay, but she wasn't a suicide—her body was burned first. In a quiet grove of coastal redwoods, a burning woman lights up the night. Former Special Agent Ben Wright has agreed to track his last serial killer as a low-profile consultant for the FBI. Despite his fear of fire, Ben's task is to put out the elusive Firebug, who uses high-tech methods to lure his victims to their fiery deaths. But this time, Ben needs help. Computer scientist Maria Fiore studied many serial killers on Death Row, then created a new tool for this manhunt—an AI simulation of the Firebug's mind. But the AI has ideas of its own -- can it be trusted, or is it a threat? Bruce Balfour, national bestselling author of The Forge of Mars and The Digital Dead, transports readers into life and death on the cutting edge of technology, where no one is safe.

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