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About the Book

Porter Manning is living a nice, quiet life earning a living as a psychotherapist in Tucson Arizona when he is drawn into an FBI investigation involving a serial killer. The FBI recruits him because he has been doing groundbreaking work on profiling serial killer based upon, what he calls, a floating profile. Realizing that there are very few real ways that anyone can profile a criminal, especially serial killer types, he sets out to help law enforcement to more accurately identify killers before they kill again. Serial killers are rarely caught before they kill and too often it is a mistake the serial killer makes that leads to his/her capture rather than any profiling that is actually done.

His task is complicated by the fact that the girl friend of a friend of his is one of the killer´s victims, which also, in the eyes of the FBI may make him a suspect too.

Bill McDonald, Porter´s friend is way too inquisitive as to what´s going on with the case and comes under heavy suspicion, but he has alibi´s for every one of the killings and seems to be innocent and just an overly concerned lover. All but one of the killings take place in Reno, Nevada and Porter is thrown together with a forensic psychologist who works for the Reno Police Department, Doris Lang. Together they work the case and in the process fall in love. As they get closer to figuring out the "Cyrano" killer he gets angrier with them for throwing him off his patterned destination. His anger is intensified when Porter goes on local television and labels him as evil incarnate and just another sick puppy who can´t tolerate not having things his way. This goads the young killer, a Desert Storm veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress disorder that leads to a recurrence of childhood psychosis and remembrance of family murders to go after Porter through Doris. There is a confrontation where the men, both martial arts followers clash and both Porter´s and Doris´ lives are in the balance.

About the Author

Richard C. Hoyt is a multi-talented performer who acts and sings and has been a disc jockey, dancer and even Ringmaster for The Ringling Brothers Circus performing at Madison Square Garden in the 1956 season in New York. As an actor he recently appeared in the William Shatner directed "Groom Lake" to be released January 3, 2003 As a singer he is completing a new album of "Songs I Like To Sing". But Richard C. Hoyt is not only a singer/actor with nearly forty years of stage and screen experience behind him, for he also has a doctorate in clinical psychology with a list of credits in that field also. He has written many things in the field of psychology and brings his clinical knowledge to bear in this, his first published book about a serial killer on the loose in Reno, Nevada.