VICAP Books

Los Angeles is city primeval, home base for the sociopathic elite. Charles Manson. The Hillside Strangler. And now—the Reaper. He hunts at night terrorizing whole families at gunpoint, mutilating and finally slaughtering them. Dozens of victims. No survivors. No Clues. Special Agents Joe Flynn and Martin Tanner, are highly trained members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. But the Reaper never leaves a trace. Flynn and Tanner can do nothing except pace in the shadows of the sleeping city waiting for the Reaper to strike again. The case files of Special Agents Flynn and Tanner are a scorching record of brutal crime. Their Los Angeles is an urban nightmare ruled by psychotic lords of violence. But VICAP agents are tough and resourceful—and they never give up. Thought this series is fiction, VICAP is a real organization initially conceived in the late 1960s when the crimes of the Boston Strangler, Charles Manson, and other “motiveless” killers began to make national headlines.

The telephone calls billed it as the Aryan Underground—finally breaking cover in a stunning wave of nationwide violence. But clues pointed to a single perpetrator: A one-man strike force of race hatred and murder. Seasoned veterans, Special Agents Flynn and Tanner have never seen homicide like this—a rampage of rape, torture, synagogue burnings, and sniper’s fire. There’s no pattern—except raw hatred—to the killer’s odyssey. But Flynn and Tanner know their quarry is planning a final mass killing of unprecedented proportions. And, as the tension builds, they’re primed to make their move when the shooting starts. Prepare yourself for a heart-stopping climax

He haunts the neon sex bazaars in every lonely metropolis in America. In the flesh palaces he finds his pleasure—and his victims. Nameless, faceless, merciless, with a hundred false identities and vast wealth, he skips untraced from one urban hunting ground to the next, leaving behind only his trademark violence, writ in his victim’s blood. FBI Special Agents Flynn and Tanner have seen rough trade before, but the cowboy joints and leather bars now harbor a deadly psychopath unlike any other. Flynn and Tanner must stop a fearless fiend still flush with bloodlust, a man already marked by death who has made one thing clear: He will not die alone.

By night he hunts human heads—a ruthless madman whose taste for grisly trophies has made screaming national headlines. By day he walks the streets, a trusted and popular member of a close-knit mountain community. Until some innocent woman passes by and something reminds the killer of… Her…. With his partner tied up on a witness stand, Special Agent Flynn races into the mountains to take this one solo. Panic and bloodshed have pushed a quiet High Sierra resort past the flash point…igniting a firestorm of raw violence. Amid the confusion of near-riot conditions, inspiration strikes the killer’s twisted mind—his next piece of butchery will cleave the heart of Agent Flynn….

A fugitive father and his sons team up for a savage cross-country killing spree. The Sawyer-Gleason clan—a malevolent family of five, let by a depraved patriarch. They live on the road… survive by the knife and gun. And never leave a witness alive. Special Agents Flynn and Tanner are trained members of the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. But this lawless spree has left VICAP reeling—and baffled: robbery, murder, gang-rape—a swath of carnage cutting across a dozen Western states. The double-digit body count is soaring. Flynn and Tanner haven’t a clue. And the Sawyers are on the road again…. _______ Though this series is fiction, VICAP is a real organization initially conceived in the late 1960s when the crimes of the Boston Strangler, Charles Manson, and other “motiveless” killers began to make national headlines. The case files of Special Agents Flynn and Tanner are a scorching record of brutal crime. Their Los Angeles is an urban nightmare ruled by psychotic lords of violence. But VICAP agents are tough and relentless—they never give up. Road Kills is # 5 in the acclaimed series of Flynn and Tanner VICAP novels.

Flynn and Tanner flirt with death and a woman who lives to kill. They call her the Huntress. Her turf is the singles bars and the back streets of broken dreams. She comes on fast and gets right down to her lethal business. So many men. So little time. Special Agents Flynn and Tanner are veterans in the war against crime. They’re trained in the psychology of bloodshed. But something’s strange about this grisly string of slayings. Experts say that savage serial murderers are never women. The evidence says the experts are wrong. Flynn’s betting his life on it. _______ Though this series is fiction, VICAP is a real organization initially conceived in the late 1960s when the crimes of the Boston Strangler, Charles Manson, and other “motiveless” killers began to make national headlines. The case files of Special Agents Flynn and Tanner are a scorching record of brutal crime. Their Los Angeles is an urban nightmare ruled by psychotic lords of violence. But VICAP agents are tough and relentless—they never give up.

Code name: Nimrod the Hunter. A top-secret government agency rescued this heartless psychopath from execution, gave him a new identity, honed his killing skills to a razor’s edge—and then allowed him to escape. VICAP veterans Flynn and Tanner personally witnessed the lethal injection and apparent demise of the infamous Bloodbath Killer. But the trademark brutality of Los Angeles’ latest serial murders lead Flynn and Tanner to an inescapable conclusion. Somehow the Bloodbath has returned, and this time, he’s smarter, crueler, more elusive—and deadlier than ever. _______ Though this series is fiction, VICAP is a real organization initially conceived in the late 1960s when the crimes of the Boston Strangler, Charles Manson, and other “motiveless” killers began to make national headlines. The case files of Special Agents Flynn and Tanner are a scorching record of brutal crime. Their Los Angeles is an urban nightmare ruled by psychotic lords of violence. But VICAP agents are tough and relentless—they never give up.

He has the grace and precision of a surgeon. But this aficionado of human anatomy specializes in healthy, suntanned coeds. He has no interest in medicine. All the Jigsaw killer wants are his gruesome souvenirs. Agents Flynn and Tanner need all their VICAP experience to get on this warped killer’s trail. The corpses of “donors” are strewn all over California. Their quarry displays a genius that makes his capture impossible…until he’s fitted the last gory detail to his shocking masterpiece. _______ Though this series is fiction, VICAP is a real organization initially conceived in the late 1960s when the crimes of the Boston Strangler, Charles Manson, and other “motiveless” killers began to make national headlines. The case files of Special Agents Flynn and Tanner are a scorching record of brutal crime. Their Los Angeles is an urban nightmare ruled by psychotic lords of violence. But VICAP agents are tough and relentless—they never give up. Jigsaw is # 8 in the acclaimed series of nine Flynn and Tanner VICAP novels.

He has the godlike power of life and sudden death. In seconds he reduces the proud towers of the cityscape to a smoking inferno—and a crematorium for all the innocents within. VICAP veterans Flynn and Tanner face the most horrifying challenge of their career in the form of a ruthless incendiary killer. Already the city’s most public buildings are blackened heaps of ash and fire-twisted knots of naked steel. The soaring body count incites mob violence in a Los Angeles summer already glowing kiln-hot. And the killer has no plans to quit—until he’ sparked the terrified metropolis past the flash point. _______ Though this series is fiction, VICAP is a real organization initially conceived in the late 1960s when the crimes of the Boston Strangler, Charles Manson, and other “motiveless” killers began to make national headlines. The case files of Special Agents Flynn and Tanner are a scorching record of brutal crime. Their Los Angeles is an urban nightmare ruled by psychotic lords of violence. But VICAP agents are tough and relentless—they never give up. Dead Heat is # 9 in the acclaimed series of nine Flynn and Tanner VICAP novels.

When an animal rights activist turns serial killer, FBI Agents Joseph Flynn and Martin Tanner race against time to stop the perpetrator's violent crusade--and to prevent him from adding a personal twist to the mayhem.