Bestselling author and "master of suspense" (The New York Times Book Review) James W. Hall combines the haunting atmosphere of Deliverance with the sheer terror of Cape Fear in his most ambitious thriller to date. IN THE DEEP, DARK MANGROVE SWAMPS Wealthy Florida matron Abigail Bates is on a canoe, trip down a backwater river when suddenly, from out of nowhere, she is held underwater to drown by a strange and merciless killer... DANGER LIES BENEATH THE SURFACE • Thorn is aboard a houseboat in Hell's Bay when he is confronted by Abigail's son and alluring granddaughter. Thorn soon learns that they are his long-lost relatives—and that he is about to inherit a great fortune. He's also about to find out that being a member of the Bates family comes with a price... AND A KILLER HIDES IN PLAIN SIGHT As he searches for clues about Abigail's murder, Thorn's houseboat becomes a precarious island of safety as he and the others find themselves hunted by an invisible enemy. For someone out there knows much more about the Bates family's dark past than