He swore no prison could hold him.He was right.
Dr. Hans Berger — the Phantom Professor, the most brilliant and sadistic killer Dimase Augustin has ever faced — has done the impossible. He's walked out of a maximum-security federal prison. And he hasn't wasted a single day of freedom on lying low.
Berger's revenge is as meticulous as it is monstrous. Backed by Russian oligarch Vladimir Pusinsky, Berger undergoes a stunning transformation — a disguise so complete that he slips back inside PKC, the biotech company he founded in his MIT days, unrecognized by the very colleagues who once knew him and feared him. While Berger closes in on his targets with surgical patience, Pusinsky has his own agenda: to exploit the chaos of the Covid pandemic for catastrophic gain.
But this isn't just about power or profit. It's personal. Berger wants Dimase to suffer before he dies — and that means going after the one person Dimase can't protect from a distance: Katie Fallon, the woman he loves.
Dimase has defeated Berger once. He's defeated Pusinsky once. He's never faced them together, and this time the devastating defeat may be his.
Some enemies come back smarter, darker, and closer than you ever imagined.
Genre: Mystery
Dr. Hans Berger — the Phantom Professor, the most brilliant and sadistic killer Dimase Augustin has ever faced — has done the impossible. He's walked out of a maximum-security federal prison. And he hasn't wasted a single day of freedom on lying low.
Berger's revenge is as meticulous as it is monstrous. Backed by Russian oligarch Vladimir Pusinsky, Berger undergoes a stunning transformation — a disguise so complete that he slips back inside PKC, the biotech company he founded in his MIT days, unrecognized by the very colleagues who once knew him and feared him. While Berger closes in on his targets with surgical patience, Pusinsky has his own agenda: to exploit the chaos of the Covid pandemic for catastrophic gain.
But this isn't just about power or profit. It's personal. Berger wants Dimase to suffer before he dies — and that means going after the one person Dimase can't protect from a distance: Katie Fallon, the woman he loves.
Dimase has defeated Berger once. He's defeated Pusinsky once. He's never faced them together, and this time the devastating defeat may be his.
Some enemies come back smarter, darker, and closer than you ever imagined.
Genre: Mystery
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