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The lives of seven young girls in Austin, Texas hang in the balance. APD Detective Sergeant Craig Rylander and Psychologist Amy Clark race against time to find them. The Austin Monster, presumed kidnapper, has apparently grabbed them off the streets, leaving no trace, no clues.
Will Rylander and Clark be able to solve the case and find the girls? Craig, with his years of no-nonsense investigating style, putting criminals behind bars? Amy, with her perceptive insight into the violent criminal mind? And, if the girls are found, will they be alive? Dead? Or somewhere in between?
The clock is ticking.
The Authors
George Arnold and Ken Squier have been friends since 1956 and the eighth grade at University Junior High School, in the shadow of The University of Texas at Austin. They worked together at the Varsity Theater on Austin’s “drag” throughout their high school and college years. Both threw afternoon paper routes in East Austin for the Austin American-Statesman.
After college in the mid-sixties, Ken remained in the movie exhibition business, joining Santikos Theaters in San Antonio, the local chain that pioneered multi-screen movie houses. He rose from theater manager to director of operations for Santikos. Later he founded and ran several entrepreneurial businesses in Austin and San Antonio. Ken and Judy, his wife of almost 40 years, live in San Antonio. They have five children and nine grandchildren.
After college, George went into the practice of marketing, advertising and public relations, becoming president of the Southwest office of a major national agency at age 34, a position he held for 22 years before retiring to the Texas Hill Country in 1999. He manages several entrepreneurial businesses, including raising coastal hay for livestock, breeding registered half-Arabian horses, marketing consulting and book wholesaling. He is the author of eight books from Eakin Press. He and Mary, his wife of 45 years, have four children and four grandchildren.
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