Cold Mind [Hardcover]

David L Lindsey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1983

Somewhere in the sprawling city of Houston, a psychopath s stalking his victims.  Each is a high-priced call girl trained and groomed for the pleasure of high-powered gentlemen.  Each is found murdered, her body twisted in a climax of agony, defying medical explanation.  but most chilling of all is that the killer is coldly efficient, leaving behind no clues, no motives, no evidence.

Homicide detective Stuart Haydon has seen his share of the dangerous passions that lead to murder, but he's never seen anything like this before.  From its luxury condos to its rotting wharves and mean back streets, Haydon is sucked into the seedy sexual underbelly of the city...into a secret slave trade in flesh and lust...into the cold mind of a killer in love with death.

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A psychopath stalks expensive call girls in this tense psychological thriller from the author of Mercy.
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"One of the scariest books I've ever read...The plot is scary, the enterprise that sets the plot in motion is scary, and the murderer is scariest of all."--The Washington Post --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 311 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins Publisher; 1st edition (September 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060151617
• ISBN-13: 978-0060151614
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #676,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

David Lindsey has published 14 novels in the mystery, thriller, suspense, and spy genres. He began his writing career in 1983 by publishing two mystery novels in the same year. One of those novels, "A Cold Mind" featuring Houston homicide detective, Stuart Haydon, has been called by reviewers "one of the best suspense novels of all time"; and "a classic of the genre." Lindsey began working closely with the Houston Homicide Division for his research, and by the late 1980s Lindsey had written four Haydon novels.

In 1988 he changed directions and began extensive research for a novel that would become one of the first to be published about a then new criminal phenomenon, the serial killer. Published in 1990, "Mercy" became an international bestseller. In 1992 the German television network Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), featured Lindsey in an hour-long special program in their "Literature and Culture" series. "Mercy" was optioned for a feature film production, and remained under option for over a decade before it was finally filmed and premiered on HBO in April 2000.

In 1992 "Body of Truth", the fifth and last novel to feature Stuart Haydon, was published and won Germany's Bochumer Krimi Archiv award for the best suspense novel of the year. Lindsey turned to international settings with "Requiem for a Glass Heart" (1996) and "The Color of Night" (1999). The first novel dealt with international crime, while the second was set in the world of spies and international intelligence. "The Rules of Silence", Lindsey's twelfth novel was published in 2003, and was the first to be set in his home city, Austin. It was immediately bought outright by Universal Studios for a feature film production.

After publishing his thirteenth novel, Lindsey spent the next several years pursuing two large teleplay projects before his curiosity brought him back to novels in 2007. He began researching the astonishing rise of the government's outsourcing of national intelligence. Silently, and out of sight, privatized spying had become a multi-billion dollar industry in the years following 9/11. The industry's growth has been so explosive that private contractors now command over 70% of the nation's entire intelligence budget. Some of the corporations have become information industry giants with government contracts in the billions of dollars annually.

Lindsey thought this subject was tailor-made for long form fiction, but he soon realized that the story he wanted to tell was too large to be encompassed in a single volume. In 2011 Lindsey, writing under the pseudonym Paul Harper, published "Pacific Heights", the first volume in a serial novel featuring former intelligence officer Marten Fane. "Sorrow's Spy", the second volume in the Marten Fane Story serial novel will be published in 2012.

Lindsey researches and writes his novels in his library, which is adjacent to his home in Austin, Texas.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best medical thriller book I have ever read, October 17, 2000

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This review is from: A Cold Mind (Paperback)

This book opened my eyes to virology. I have never read a book that totally sucked me in. I actually read it in a few hours, I couldn't put it down for anything. I recommend it to everyone and have had to buy about 5 copies because people I lend it to won't give it back!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An incredible thriller! a must read., August 28, 2011

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R. G. Tichy (North Barrington, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Cold Mind (Paperback)

I still remember the thrill I got reading this particular book about twenty years ago. This is the David Lindsey book I will always think of first.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great page turning thriller, December 1, 1999

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philip s. watson (dallas, texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Cold Mind (Paperback)

This is great writing. Story moves fast and characteres, protag and antag, are real and fascinating. Story line/plot is new and excellent.