Dr. Skull

<p>When a motorman runs a red signal a broker hands a stranger ten thousand dollars and the Mayor speaks a ransom's ultimatum with another man's voice New York thinks it's facing a spree of madness. It's not madness. It's Dr. Skull.</p><p></p><p>Bob Larkin a young Madison Avenue copywriter and Paula Lansdowne daughter of the celebrated psychologist Alfred Lansdowne are drawn into a campaign of psychic terror that will shred the city's nerves. As the killings mount and officials falter Lansdowne confronts a darker possibility: an occult mastery of the mind unlike any modern hypnotism wielded by a criminal who sees through other people's eyes and speaks through their mouths. With the city's power centers under threat the trio must race past police bluster and public panic trace a vanished genius to the heart of an ancient brotherhood and find a way to fight a will that turns sane men into instruments of murder.</p><p></p><p>Equal parts detective procedural pulp thriller and occult thriller <em>Dr. Skull</em> is a high‑voltage serial thriller about power persuasion and the price a city pays when someone learns how to move its people like chessmen.</p>