The current horror genre finds in JD Barker to your most efficient preacher. Because under the first appearance of black genre, we end up discovering in the trilogy that closes with this sixth trap a volume made into an investigative thriller in which the investigated is the devil himself. Because no criminal so determined to make his work the legacy of hell on Earth.
But it is also that the chilling analogies with current health, between viruses and sociological transformations never seen in our modern world, project us to that increasingly tangible space of the possible dystopia in which terror can end up ruling, camping, becoming routine ...
Hopefully it's not like that in the end and it's just the morbid atavistic look at horror, like Edith turning to salt for taking one last look at annihilated Sodom.
The book starts right where the previous installment ends: Sam Porter, until now the detective in charge of the case, has been removed from it and is increasingly suspicious, the largest hospital in the city is closed for quarantine for risk of contagion of the SARS virus and among the sick are the policemen Clair and Klozowski, as well as Upchurch, the accomplice of the Fourth Monkey, who is torn between life and death. Their survival is decisive for the Fourth Monkey to decide not to release the virus to the rest of the country.
When bodies begin to appear in different parts of the geography with the same pattern, the police are clear: the Fourth Monkey continues to act, and this time it is impossible for him to do it alone. Thus begins a race against time to stop one of the most fascinating and intelligent murderers ever known who has managed to terrorize an entire country.
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