Jack Kerley
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Jack Kerley is an American author. He spent 20 years in a successful advertising career before writing his first book. He currently lives in Newport, Kentucky.
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[edit] Writing
Jack Kerley is the author of the Carson Ryder books, The Hundredth Man and The Death Collectors.
[edit] The Hundredth Man
Bizarre writings are found on two corpses in Mobile, Alabama. Detective Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus, the two man team of PSIT (the Psychopathological and Sociopathological Investigative Team), are launched into a search to find the killer. In the process, Ryder reveals the terrible truth about his past; his brother Jeremy is a convicted serial killer, who often provides Ryder with information about the mentality of the killers he faces.
- Publisher: E.P.Dutton; 320pp. ISBN 0-525-94821-X (hardcover).
[edit] The Death Collectors
In 1972, the day he is being sentenced, well known artist and serial killer Marsden Hexcamp is shot to death in the courtroom. The members of his Mansonesque cult are imprisoned or vanish. 30 years later, a possible prostitute is found dead, in a motel room full of candles, resembling Marsden Hexcamp's first murder. Soon after Marsden's artwork is sent to many of his remaining followers, and shortly after his followers see his artwork, they are killed by an unknown assailiant. Detective Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus, the only members of the Pyschopathilogical and Sociopathilogical Investigation Team, or PSIT, are put on the case. Following the artwork they descend into the world of the Death Collectors, people who spend obscene amounts of money to own memorabilia of serial killers.
- Publisher: E.P.Dutton; 320pp. ISBN 0-525-94877-5 (hardcover).
