Survival of the Fittest

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school trip-lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assualt, leaving psychologist Alex Deleware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the question: "Why?" Working together with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli police inspector, Deleware and Sturgis find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes again, it is Alex who must go under cover, alone, to expose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous britality and total contempt for human life. Copyright 1998 by Jonathan Kellerman. Published by Random House Publishing.