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Chapter 1Kerry Satterfield stared at the jumble of notes, printouts, pages copied out of her old textbooks and grainy telephoto shots that littered her desk. Out of this hodge-podge, a clear portrait of the suspect in her latest top priority case was supposed to emerge. Building it was part of her job as a profiler for the FBI. Right now she was frustrated as hell because nothing was coming to her, nothing at all. The data was like a jigsaw puzzle with a dozen key pieces missing. We’ve got to stop this creep. So far it doesn’t look like he’s killed any victims, but it’s just a matter of time. Bad enough he’s terrorizing young kids, worrying parents half to death, and apparently sexually abusing at least some of the boys he kidnaps. For a kid who’d grown up on the wrong side of town, she’