"The Hundredth Man" by Jack Kertley
"The Hundredth Man" is the first novel of famous American novelist Jack Kerley. This is the very book which introduced Jack Kertley to a great number of readers all over the world. The author of the famous novel "The Hundredth Man" started his writing career and was recognized as a talented writer not so long ago besides before Jack Kertley wrote his fist novel he had successful advertising career and worked on a numerous ads projects throughout the world. Today Jack lives in Newport, Kentucky and continues to work on his next novel in the Carson Ryder series, which is supposed to be out in 2008. Once Jack Kertley said that nothing else but curiosity drives his works and helps to make his characters so interesting and his novels so captivating.
Mystery is the most attractive point in "The Hundredth Man" and the rest of Jack Kertley's novels. Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus are two major characters in the novel. Both of them are detectives and the members of PSIT (the Psychopathological and Sociopathological Investigative Team). PSIT is a team which organized investigation of freakish and serial homicides. Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus live in Mobile, Alabama and hold an inquiry in order to find a killer, who kills people around the Mobile area and leave headless corpses of his victims. The investigation becomes more and more intricate and one day Ryder begins to find out terrible facts about his past and his older brother Jeremy who turns out to be a condemned serial killer. Jeremy becomes a unique member of PSIT who can help hold an inquiry because he can understand serial killer's behavior since he himself is a serial killer. |