Last year I'd read MORTAL PURSUIT by Brian Harper, who's now writing under the nom de plume Michael Prescott, perhaps a savvy move by his publishers at Signet who wish to distance themselves from the author of the PURSUIT series.The blurb on the book's cover is sexist enough enough as it is- "For a female cop, the next six hours is all about staying alive." Why should it matter at all if the cop is a female?The blurb should read, instead, "For the reader, the next six hours is all about staying awake."It is preposterous to expect the reader to believe that a cop is going to stay out of radio contact without anyone attempting to look for him/her and the ghost-from-the-past plot device is too hackneyed for words.This may do for a few empty hours at the beach or the laundrymat but I'd recommend going to a second-hand bookstore to pick up this and "Harper's" other PURSUIT novels.