Eyes Wide Open: A Novel [Paperback]

“Gross is a top-notch thriller writer.”
—Chicago Sun-Times

“Andrew Gross knows how to make your skin crawl.Eyes Wide Openshould be read with the door shut and the lights on; a truly terrifying descent into evil.”
—Nelson DeMille

New York Timesbestselling author Andrew Gross solidifies his position as one of today’s very best suspense authors withEyes Wide Open. Joining his previous bestsellersThe Blue Zone, The Dark Tide, Don’t Look Twice, andReckless, Eyes Wide Openis another brilliant example of the contemporary thriller done absolutely right. In this relentlessly exciting page-turner, a man must investigate a shattering personal tragedy that is somehow connected with a charismatic cult leader from the ‘60s. James Patterson, Harlan Coben, David Baldacci, John Grisham, Jonathan Kellerman, Jeffery Deaver, Lisa Gardner, Nelson DeMille, Tess Gerritsen—Andrew Gross stands tall in their elite company.

A horrible family tragedy that may not be what it seems . . .

A past encounter with an infamous killer turns deadly today . . .

An ordinary man must risk his own family to find the truth.

Jay Erlich’s nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay. It’s all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his hand in this?

When Jay heads out west to help his grieving brother, he is pulled back into his past—and begins to suspect that his nephew’s suicide may not have been a suicide at all. With eyes wide open, Jay puts his own life at risk to uncover the truth, a quest that goes beyond the edge of madness and a family haunted by a secret past . . . and into the depths of evil.

An emotional, frightening study of evil with believable characters and a relentless pace. Readers wholƒ%