Patrick Bowers Files #4 December 2011 On Sale: December 6, 2011 Featuring: Patrick Bowers 512 pages ISBN: 0451235355 EAN: 9780451235350 Paperback (reprint)  Add to Wish List Thriller, Inspirational Fiction Mystery Buy at Amazon.com The Bishop by Steven James The Game Is On… FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers’s cutting-edge investigative techniques and impeccable logic are about to be pushed to the limit. Killers are on a bloody murder spree throughout the Northeast, with each crime a model of deadly perfection. With nothing to link the crimes to each other, Agent Bowers faces his most difficult case yet- even as the killers hone their craft with every death… An exhilarating crime thriller that plunges to the depths of evil and the soul! Previous Picks

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