Cutting Edge (Edge Series #1) [Kindle Edition]

Robert W. Walker (Author)

Book Description

To a killer, murder is a game. To the victims, death is all too real. But when a popular computer game inspires a virtual crime wave, a female police psychiatrist must enlist a former police detective to help her cross the edge between games and reality, genius and insanity, life and death....

CUTTING EDGE

...is the shattering new thriller introducing officer Lucas Stonecoat and psychiatrist Meredyth Sanger. The acclaimed author of KILLER INSTINCT, Robert W. Walker fills this powerful crime novel with the same riveting detail and characterization that have won him awards and critical praise.

(This book is first in Robert W. Walker's Edge series. It was originally published in paperback.)


About the Author

Robert W. Walker is the author of more than forty thriller and horror novels, including 4 books in the EDGE series and 11 books in the acclaimed INSTINCT series featuring FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran.


Praise for Robert W. Walker

"Masterful." -- Clive Cussler

"Ingenious." -- San Francisco Examiner

"Gruesome." -- The Sunday Oklahoman

"Frightening." -- Midwest Book Review."

"Bone-chilling." -- Publisher's Weekly

"Perfect for Patricia Cornwell fans." -- Mystery Scene

"Walker is a master at the top of his game." -- Jack Kilborn

Product Details

• File Size: 529 KB
• Print Length: 308 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003I851R8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,585 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I thought it was great and would highly recommend it. June 19, 1997

By A Customer

Format:Mass Market Paperback

Having read a few of Mr. Walker's Instinct series, I was hoping for better, and I got it. Cutting Edge kept me on the edge of my seat! (No pun intended) He was not redundant (in Pure Instinct he fully described James P. at least 4 times !) Religious zealousness and computers are hot topics today, and combining the two was a winner. Finally, a moden-day Native American hero! I can't wait for his next book in the Stonecoat series -- Highly recommend!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Suspense Story January 23, 2011

By Candy

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I found this this be a great suspense novel. Lucas Stonecoat is an Native American cop trying to get his detective status back in Houston Texas. It is full of action and suspense as to who is killing people, Robert Walker gets the action going and keeps it going through the whole book all the way to the end. Just bought the rest of the series.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Robert Walker has yet to drop the ball. February 21, 1998

By A Customer

Format:Mass Market Paperback

I picked up Cutting Edge with a certain amount of trepidation. Walker was deviating from one of my favorite characters, Jessica Coran and I wasn't sure I was happy about it. Patricia Cornwell is one of my all time favorite authors, but her deviation from her Kay Scarpetta character in Hornets Nest was, in my opinion anyway disappointing. I do not wish for any author to become stuck in a "character slot", but oftimes, striking out into new directions can lead to loyal reader disappointment. Cutting Edge was successful beyond my hopes in creating new characters I could become hooked on. The plot never bogged down or predictable. His characters fresh, quirky, imperfect and all too human. I WANT MORE!! Kudos Mr. Walker!

More About the Author

My latest several novels have been Original to Kindle, exclusvie works. Most recent has been TITANIC 2012 - Curse of RMS Tttanic, a cross-genre, generational suspense thriller with an occult horror twist. It's a new theory, a theory that proves the innocence of the iceberg, ha! Puts the burden of error squarely back onto Captain Edward Smith's shoulders, but it is also science fiction as it alternates chapters between 1912 and 2012. In future, divers go inside Titanic the Wreck to plunder her interiors. But what they find is murder and mayhem and monstrous stuff! See all ten reviews on Amazon.com

Just prior to launching T2012, I placed up CHILDREN of SALEM, romance and intrigue and ecumenical spies amid the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Talk about a "Bad Time to Be in Love" - but Jere Wakely does love the daughter of an excommunicated witch, Serena Nurse, and he vows to put an end to the insanity of the trials. Painstakingly reserached for some thirty odd years, Children of Salem is both my life's work and now my highest grossing ebook to date, selling 255 copies a month and garnering great reviews (as is T2012). Children of Salem is a big ambitious work that all my previous books have led me to return to over decades to rewrite and rewrite again and again until I got it right.

AFTERSCHOCK is among all my backlisted titles sold years ago to NYC publishers. Aftershock is the ebook bread-winner, the one which as sold the most copies and for a long time had been my leading title in sales. I placed up some 40 "odd" previously published titles ranging from horror and supernatural, occult horror and suspense-thriller to mysteries and historical themes, and now i have 46 Kindle titles available. Would be fifty if not for tie-ups on other titles.

One more recent modern day noir PI novels is DEAD ON from Five Star Books July '09 which has garnered rave reviews and wonderful remarks from Tess Gerritsen, Ken Bruen, JA Konrath, David Ellis, Raymond Benson, and Jay Boninsinga as well as Booklist! Prior to this my City trilogy, City for Ransom, Shadows in the White City, and City of the Absent published via HarperCollins and heralded as great books by The Chicago Tribune, winning the coveted Lovey Award, set the stage for my finally being able to get Childen of Salem RIGHT.

A bit about myself: I grew up in Chicago as my father came out of WWII knowing one skill -- how to drive a truck. As a truck driver, he supported five children. I was born in Corinth, MS., siblings born in Tuskeegee, AL., where my mother hailed from.

I struggled in school in inner-city Chicago, but early on found I had a gift for 'talking my way out of fights' and this translated into 'telling stories' to influence others, and soon wondered if I could not do it for money. I began writing at a young age to 'communicate' ideas and always at the root of my tales are ideas, notions, concepts, issues, fears, phobias,the darkside of human nature, twisted religion, the human conditon, and themes I find fascinating like the injustice we see every day, and vengeance, and greed, and skullduggery all around.

In fact, much of my fiction centers on twisted this or twisted that...from twisted fantasies in the minds of killers to twisted religion in the minds of...yeah... killers and others. I have read widely in all areas of human endeavor and use all areas imaginable in the creation of my characters and stories, and my work is character-driven whether it is a suspense novel or an historical novel.

I recieved a full scholarship to Northwesern Univesity out of Wells High School, inner city, which was some kind of feat, and it was based on my writing ability. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Education, went on to accomplish a Masters in English Education. I've taught for over thirty-years to 'support' my habit -- writing. I have always taught full-time while writing full-time, and I 'make' time.

While I grew up in Chicago, and many of my books center there and in the Midwest, I am currently living in Charleston, WV where I am still teaching and writing. I live with four step-children and my ER RN wife, Miranda, whose first novel, a serial killer chase down romp called Absolution, is also available on Kindle. I completed my 50th novel for publication with Titanic 2012.

Wish to thank all my readers for the many, many years of support since writing the spoof on disaster films and books, SUB-ZERO in 1979, and those who supported my Instinct and Edge Series as well as my various horror and other suspense series. I have created no less than eight series characters, all of whom I intend to keep "alive" via Kindle original titles in future. I am currently working on a 4th Geoffrey Caine (pen name) Abe Stroud, archology horror title called Bayou Wulf. For a free download of the first chapters, you can contact me on facebook or my website - www.robertwalkerbooks.com