title: Deadly Games
author:  Cate Noble 
description: <b>Cate Noble</b> likes trouble. Her specialty: high intensity romantic thrillers that never let upwith tall, dark and devilish heroes who never let you down. A former accountant, she now enjoys making sure danger, intrigue, and drop-dead romance add up to an adrenaline rush her readers wont soon forget. Cate and her vivid imagination live in Florida with her real-life hero.
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  THE
  
  
  
  
  
  DEADLIEST
  
  
  
  
  
  GAMES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL
  
  
  
  
  
  SUSPENSE FROM _ELLERY_
  
  
  
  
  
  _QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In these fifteen tales of psychological suspense, the game of cat and mouse so
  often played out in crime fiction takes on its deadliest form. Here the
  players are not the forces of law and order on the one side and a wily culprit
  on the other, but antagonists in a contest without institutionalized rules, in
  which an accurate perception of the opponent’s heart and mind may make the
  difference between life and death. Sometimes the play begins innocently enough
  until a misperception leads to suspicion and the real game is afoot; sometimes
  a malicious adversary finds the table turned, as hunter becomes hunted; or a
  character discovers his real nemesis to be a devil within.
  
  
  
  
  
  In _The Deadliest Games_ , Andrew Vachss leads us into the mind of a serial
  killer in “Born Bad.” Bluffing turns into an agoniz