Homecoming

American hostage Simon Farrel is coming home, to a world he thought he'd never see again. To a wife who had found a new lover. To sleepless nights of torment, haunted by the horrors he had witnessed.An ex-convict is coming home, to kill for the pleasure of killing. To turn terrible memories of mental and physical abuse into brutal realities. To terrorize one perfect family...By probing the tortured mind of Simon Farrell.

From Publishers Weekly

Simon Farrell is the tormented hero of this taut page-turner. Taken hostage in Lebanon, he is kept blindfolded, regularly beaten and put in a cell with a hanging corpse, attended by guards whom he mentally labels "Big Shoes" and "Garlic Breath." Farrell escapes, but his return home is far from happy. While he tries to reestablish his life with Lizbeth, his wife, to whom he has become a stranger, a sadistic character is on the loose--a serial killer with the cartoonish name of Donald Pick. Released from prison for his earlier crimes, Pick performs an elaborate mutilation on police consultant Dr. Lane Cubbage: "He quickly mashed the testes in his hands until they collapsed into a hemorrhaging paste." Lieutenant Jack Friedman finally tracks down Pick--otherwise known as "the Meatman"--but not before the killer has gone after Farrell and his wife and daughter, making a mockery of Farrell's homecoming. Costello ( Darkborn ) can write with power and pathos, and he gives his story a tragic twist, but the gratuitous cruelty brutalizes the reader. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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