Jack Dance is the cleverest, nastiest, and most accomplished sociopath ever to grace the pages of a thriller. With no conscience and a devil-may-care attitude, this smiling, tune-humming, horribly handsome serial killer will make you shudder. His cavalier attitude when engaged in murder, his complete and utter lack of humanity, and the pairing of these attributes with the most cunning criminal mind of the century will linger in your mind long after you've finished the book.

Jack had a bad experience when he was eleven. It had something to do with a blue-eyed blond named Meredith. And after stewing in hot rage for many years, he finally takes action. Her murder--his first--whets his appetite for what is to becomes a ritualistic re-killing of Meredith, over and over again.

Aside from being a superb writer--I say this with complete honesty and zero exaggeration--Mr. Prescott is a talented plot twister who maintains tension and never, ever lets it slacken. Once you've read (or listened) to his books such at Stealing Faces, Blind Pursuit, or Mortal Pursuit, you'll learn that you'd best store up some extra adrenaline for the guaranteed ride to come. Deadly Pursuit is relentless in its suspense, and your favorite protagonist will be sure to partake of many successions of satisfying chase scenes with the villain. I've said this before, and I'll say it again: when it comes to writing thrillers, Mr. Prescott leads the pack.

Steve and Kirstie Gardner head for a vacation on Pelican Key, the place of Steve's childhood summer vacations, where he and his pal Jack Dance explored and clambered over the ruins of the old lime plantation. Now the house has been restored, and it beckons to Stephen with an inexplicable urgency. He needs to be there. He craves the connection to his youth. And he worries that maybe--just maybe--secrets from his past might follow.

The problem arises when Jack Dance happens to seek refuge on the same island when the feds begin to link him to the murders of the now infamous "Mister Twister." When Jack bumps into Kirstie on the beach, his thirst for blood surges, because as luck would have it, she looks a lot like Meredith.

I won't spoil the plot by telling you more. Just rest assured that the ride is torturous and deliciously scary.

This book is much more than a thriller--it's also a story that transports you from your armchair to a tropical island. I love novels with a sumptuous "sense of place." Deadly Pursuit propels the reader smack dab in the sultry humidity of the Florida Keys. I've never been there, but felt thoroughly connected thanks to Mr. Prescott's descriptions of the lush flowers, trees, wildlife and ecosystem. I am certain he must have frequented the location in person, so beautifully drawn were the scenes.

I happened to experience this book in audio book format. The narrator, Christopher Burns, has an uncanny knack for voices, especially for the carefree, jaunty inner voice of a serial killer. It "creeped me out" as my kids would say, to listen to this sociopath in such an intimate fashion. Well done, Mr. Prescott and Mr. Burns!

Highly recommended for adults by Aaron Paul Lazar, lazarbooks.com

First review for Amazon. I have read all of Michael Prescott's books & this one is as good as all his others. If you want to read a story that grabs you from Chapter 1 to the very end this is the book for you. All Michael's books are the same. So buy them all & then start reading them. All the stories are very quick & catching, they suck you in in the 1st couple of pages & keep you there till the very end. I can not recommend them enough.
Enjoy the quality writing & great stories. Thanks.

DEADLY PURSUIT is a deadly disaster. I have read most of the other Michael Prescott novels and found most of them well done and entertaining. Had this been my first read of his novels I would never have bought another one. The plot is absolutely ridiculous and beyond belief. I am not a dog lover but I know no dog owner holding a gun would allow someone to slash his dog's neck. Other bizarre plot twists are almost as stupid. I ended up skimming the novel just to get to the end and finish the dreadful thing.

To borrow a line from a song, 'how long has this been going on'.
Is she a psycho or a victim? What caused her to commit a crime all those years ago? Is she innocent or is she guilty?
These questions, and more, lead us through this well written piece of suspense.
I don't want to go into too much detail here, as I don't want to give anything away. Part of the enjoyment of this book is making the discoveries along the way. Not only of the pursued, but also the pursuer.
My final question....who is to be trusted and believed?
Juli Erickson

I am now 80% of the way through and having a hard time continuing. The story line is okay, but the writer's lengthy, flowery and sometimes even silly descriptions are distracting from the actions. I find myself skimming over a good part of those in order to get on with the story. It just doesn't seem like the Michael Prescott that I've read before.

You can't go wrong with a Michael Prescott book. This one is gripping. When an author has the ability to make you feel like YOU are the character, feeling their fear, tears and sweat, you know he's a good author. You can hear the insects buzzing and landing on you - when all the while a stalker is stealthily following you. Great book. (I've also noticed that Prescott books are edited extremely well. You don't run into the misspellings and typos that you find in SO many books!)

I have enjoyed a number of previous books from Prescott thus my reason for having purchased Deadly Pursuit. This book was a great disappointment for me for the lack of substance and basically the accumulation irrelevant if not insignificant details as if to fill the pages. In my opinion Jack Dance deviant behaviour goes beyond reasonable level for a thriller of the quality normally expected from Prescott. Probably is my last reading from this author.

Although I'm a Michael Prescott fan, I have to admit that this is not his best effort. Despite the beautiful word pictures he paints, and there are many of these, his characters lack the depth of personality found in most of Prescott's books. My suggestion is to pass this one up and choose one of the many others offered by this talented writer.