Publisher's Synopsis
"Tautly paced with impeccable timing...vivid prose and expert plotting." WASHINGTON POST "This masterfully told thriller is impossible to put down and equally impossible to forget." LIBRARY JOURNAL 'Happy fifty-third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. You ruined my life. And now I fully intend to ruin yours.' Until the moment he reads those words, New York psychoanalyst Dr Frederick Starks has led a quiet and, so he believes, blameless life. But suddenly he is plunged into a dizzying battle of wits designed by a man who calls himself Rumplestiltskin. The rules: in two weeks Starks must guess his tormentor's identity and the source of his fury. If he succeeds, he goes free. If he fails, one by one, Rumplestiltskin will destroy fifty-two of Dr Starks's loved ones - unless the doctor agrees to kill himself...
