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Opening Moves: The Bowers Files (Kindle Edition)

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In The Bowers Files novels, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has stopped some of the most vicious serial killers ever imagined. Now, in the fifth exciting installment, author Steven James takes readers back to Bowers’s terrifying beginning.

Milwaukee, 1997. In a city reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a series of gruesome kidnappings and mutilations draw authorities into a case like nothing they’ve ever seen. Cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose.

But Patrick Bowers, working as a homicide detective, suspects this is more than an ode to the infamous cannibal. When he discovers that the shocking acts reference some of the most notorious and macabre killers in our nation’s history, the investigation spirals into a nightmare of manipulation, brutality, and terror.

Wielding groundbreaking investigative techniques, Bowers must now face off with a killer who will stop at nothing to get his message out to the world. Chilling, gritty, and packed with twists and turns, Opening Moves is Steven James’s most heart-pounding novel yet.
Steven James
Opening Moves: The Bowers Files
Opening Moves: The Bowers Files
By Steven James (Berkley)
Release date: September 4, 2012
In The Bowers Files novels, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has stopped some of the most vicious serial killers ever imagined. Now, in the fifth exciting installment, author Steven James takes readers back to Bowers’s terrifying beginning. Milwaukee, 1997. In a city reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a series of gruesome kidnappings and mutilations draw authorities into a case like nothing they’ve ever seen. Cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose.
 
 
Review – Opening Moves
Reviewed by Melanie De Jong
I think Opening Moves might be one of Steven James’ most chilling and creepy Patrick Bowers book yet (although all of them are creepy in their own way).
 
 
Review – Opening Moves
Reviewed by Victor Gentile
Another really great offering from the pen of Steven James. If you enjoy a good adventure thriller then this is the book for you!
 
 
Review – Opening Moves
Reviewed by Gail Welborn
If you weren’t a James fan before, you will be by the time you finish reading.