Knots is inspired by two existing and closely related organizations: Clonaid, a human cloning company that has purportedly succeeded in cloning humans through groundbreaking DNA technology, and the Raëlian Movement, a religious sect that sees cloning as the pathway to immortality. The church (cult) was founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon. In Knots, Clonite is fashioned after Clonaid—a self-described human cloning company associated with the Raëlian Movement. The Reality Church is fashioned after the Raëlian cult.
Kalvin Matheson is an out-of-work insurance salesman who is obsessed with immortality and the hero worship of two notorious serial killers. The recent death of his twin brother, Alvin, sends Kalvin into depression. In his quest for immortality, Kalvin meets Reality Church's Bishop John, an affiliate of Clonite. Bishop John offers Kalvin a two-for-the-price-of-one deal, but the price runs steep for the promise of “everlasting life.”
Kalvin follows in the footsteps of his two serial-killer heroes, but with a subtle signature twist, utilizing intricate knots. Elated with his success in eluding police, along with acquiring certain victims’ assets through intricate insurance fraud schemes, the killings turn more bizarre.
Justin Barnes discovers that Kalvin’s murdering heroes were associated with Clonite. There are tenuous similarities between old crimes and the current crime scenes. Authorities must acquire Clonite’s well-guarded private client list, believing that the information will lead them to the killer. The suspect is ultimately brought in for questioning, and Kalvin reveals an astonishing truth that reflects his sickness of mind. Justin’s concern, shared with a faction of homicide’s Team Three unit, is that the deranged yet clever killer will be deemed insane and one day be set free to kill again.
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The Author
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Reviewed as "ANOTHER WINNER" by Mark Reid, NewBookReviews.
Released in April 2007 by Port Town Publishing.
The Author (prequel to The Teacher) introduces Justin Barnes as an ex drug and weapons runner. When two murders occur on Long Island, and another in Old Town, Maine, seasoned homicide detectives note certain similarities and come up with a bizarre motive for the killing spree. Is it possible that an eco-terrorist is punishing the people he deems responsible for environmental pollution by claiming the lives of their loved ones in retaliation? Even more compelling, it appears that factions within federal, state, and local governments are looking the other way while a Mafia don and his crew work the parameters of the case.
Ruthless, sadistic and vicious, serial killer Malcolm Columba is the author and architect of an operation that surreptitiously and safely places Bureau agents within the ranks of extremist groups around the globe.
As alien as the killer himself is the man who ultimately hunts him down. An unlikely vigilante with a vengeance, Justin Barnes searches unrelentingly for the madman in a race to the finish, ultimately destroying a sinister force hellbent on securing an encoded document that promises to imperil the supremacy of the United States.
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The Teacher
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Winner of "BEST SUSPENSE BOOK of 2006" from NewBookReviews.
Released in June 2006 by Port Town Publishing.
In The Teacher (sequel to The Author), the American intelligence community is retooling, and so is the way in which Suffolk County's commanding officer of homicide, Detective Lieutenant Theodore Groche, conducts day-to-day business.
Earlier in time, covert operative, Justin Barnes, helped dismantle a global terrorist network and terminated its leader, serial killer Malcolm Columba. Two years have elapsed; Columba's protégé, serial murderer Clarence Emery, has surfaced. Whereas a faction of the feds initially felt compelled to overlook Columba’s plausible penchant for murder, Emery, known as The Teacher—a terrifying figure, often befriending before butchering his victims, up close and very personal—has every law enforcement agency in the country on high alert.
Sanctioned by a hierarchy shrouded in secrecy, Justin Barnes’ mission is to hunt down and terminate Clarence Emery. But who is hunting whom? Justin and his beautiful associate, Jacqueline Rubino, ultimately ask themselves.
Two women are found murdered at Pipes Cove in Greenport, Long Island, New York, which unquestionably has Emery's signature. Emery is quickly apprehended. Too quickly to satisfy Justin's sixth sense. And rightfully so. For no sooner than Emery is transferred to Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on Ward's Island off Manhattan, the psychopath informs its director—Dr. Timothy Littleton—that he “won’t be staying long.” It gradually becomes crystal clear to the psychiatrist that the killer had planned his own capture and release. Littleton realizes that he has but little choice than to help Emery escape. Hence, the game of cat and mouse begins.
Clarence Emery can hardly wait to match wits with the black American maverick enforcer. Justin Barnes, in turn, obsesses on the moment when the madman and he will finally meet—face-to-face.
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Reviewed as "A BRILLIANT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER,"
Dr. Geraldine Kammerman, Towers News.
Released in 1990 by Hudson View Press.
No Stranger Than I is a psychological thriller detailing the metamorphosis of a young, abused, and battered child into that of a multiple murderer and personality. It is the depiction of a boy subjected to a curious mix of care and cruelty by his deranged mother. Magic, hypnosis and ventriloquism are the cogent symptoms that lead this young man to discover his divided selves. It is a compelling look at madness in the making.
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