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Sacrifice Dreams - A New Novel by David Chapman
Jimmy Santos is a decorated ex-LAPD Detective who retired rather than accept a desk job promotion. He owns a profitable PI firm catering to the film industry. Serving LAPD Detective Mark Brenner, who commands the Special Cases Squad, handling high-profile cases that send the public into a frenzy, seeks Jimmy’s help on a recent string of murders where headless, handless, heartless, skinned corpses are found in public places.
The Priest is a ritualistic killer convinced he is descended from an ancient line of Aztec Shaman. Booted out of Vietnam when his mutilation killings of Vietcong soldiers become known, he finds peace telling Aztec stories to his Mexican people until a drive-by massacre of his story group unleashes his rage and induces him to hunt down worthy sacrifices for his gods.
Simultaneously, Jimmy responds to a Sony Pictures request that he stymie a blackmail plot to disrupt the shooting of Seascape. He meets Alison Reed, the film’s director. A love affair begins between these two complicated, confident, and ambitious people. It gets personal when Jimmy and Alison become targets of The Priest.
The Priest is a ritualistic killer convinced he is descended from an ancient line of Aztec Shaman. Booted out of Vietnam when his mutilation killings of Vietcong soldiers become known, he finds peace telling Aztec stories to his Mexican people until a drive-by massacre of his story group unleashes his rage and induces him to hunt down worthy sacrifices for his gods.
Simultaneously, Jimmy responds to a Sony Pictures request that he stymie a blackmail plot to disrupt the shooting of Seascape. He meets Alison Reed, the film’s director. A love affair begins between these two complicated, confident, and ambitious people. It gets personal when Jimmy and Alison become targets of The Priest.