Personal Demons: Book One in The Jake Helman Files Series [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Jake Helman, an elite member of the New York Special Homicide Task Force, faces what every cop dreads—an elusive serial killer. While investigating a series of bloodletting sacrifice rituals executed by an ominous perpetrator known as the Cipher, Jake refuses to submit to a drug test and resigns from the police department. While battling a cocaine addiction, Jake starts a high-pressure position as the director of security at Tower International, a controversial genetic-engineering ...

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Personal Demons: Book One in The Jake Helman Files Series

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Overview

Jake Helman, an elite member of the New York Special Homicide Task Force, faces what every cop dreads—an elusive serial killer. While investigating a series of bloodletting sacrifice rituals executed by an ominous perpetrator known as the Cipher, Jake refuses to submit to a drug test and resigns from the police department. While battling a cocaine addiction, Jake starts a high-pressure position as the director of security at Tower International, a controversial genetic-engineering company. Beneath the polished exterior of the corporate identity and the CEO—who has a reputation as the frontiersman on the cutting edge of science—is a deranged mind. As Jake delves deeper into this frightening laboratory, he discovers much more than unethical practices performed in the name of human progress. Sequestered in rooms veiled in secrecy is the worst crime the world will ever see—the theft of the human soul. Horrifying and gruesome, this is a gripping, suspense-filled novel that offers intense arguments about science, ethics, and human life.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781605420738
  • Publisher: Medallion Press, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/1/2009
  • Series: The Jake Helman Files , #1
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 8,573
  • File size: 3 MB

Meet the Author

Gregory Lamberson is the writer and director of the horror films Naked Fear, Slime City, and Undying Love. He is the author of Johnny Gruesome and a contributor to Cheap Scares: Horror Filmmakers Share Their Experience. He lives in Cheektowaga, New York.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 31, 2011

    Can't wait to read more!

    Very good read. Lots of imagination. Can't wait to read more about Jake Helman

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 19, 2012

    Excellent

    I loved this story and want to continue reading this series. Great use of heaven and hell with a healthy dose of weird and realistic.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted August 27, 2009

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    taut serial killer horror thriller

    The Cipher is a psychopathic serial killer who takes perverse extra pleasure with seeing the face of terror on his victims. He slices their throats with a caring tenderness; takes a photo of their fear-ridden face; and finally kills them. Afterward he uses the picture to have a likeness tattooed on his body so he carries their soul with him that he steals just when they die.

    Jake Helman is a fallen cop who uses cocaine to take the edge off the demons that haunt his soul. His wife Sheryl is irate with him and is threatening to leave him. Although he cares about her and what she will do, he remains diligent with stalking the Cipher. Billionaire Nicholas "Old Nick" Tower needs a Chief of Security to protect his genetic engineering corporation; he learns of Jake and hires him, which saves his marriage but not his soul as the Tower Corporation takes him away from the Cipher hunt, but soon the soul searching former cop has a new evil to investigate.

    This taut serial killer horror thriller hooks readers from the onset and as the tension grows the audience becomes deeper involved. The cast is strong especially the Cipher who is an incredible villain with no doubts or bouts of remorse while his adversary is crippled with doubts and bouts of remorse; throw in aptly named Old Nick into the mix. Each has crutches with Cipher being the tattoos and Jake cocaine and alcohol. Fans will appreciate this edgy dark thriller anticipating the gruesome confrontation between evil and fallen good.

    Harriet Klausner

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 9, 2012

    L

    Get ready for a wild roller coaster ride. This book grabs u at page 1 and doesnt let go until the end when u fall down and go ' whew...what a ride!'

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 24, 2012

    PERSONAL DEMONS

    This book was dynamite!! It held my interests from page one and it didn't stop till the end!!! I absolutely loved it!! Later on I will get the second book!!!!!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 4, 2011

    Good read

    Enjoyed the developement of the story and good ending

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 12, 2013

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    i have to say that this book was awsome.  I gotten Haunted Horro

    i have to say that this book was awsome.  I gotten Haunted Horror Collection and Personal Demons were in i as the first book to read.  I have to admit i thought i was not going to like it.  but i love it.  i gave this book 5 stars out of 5.  i like the fact hat i more then a mystery.  it has demons, monsters, and science stuff...if you love horror/mysteries you will love this one.  when i get payed i will be buying the other two books...enjoy reading the book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 17, 2013

    Li

    Ish here but headed to bed. Tomorrow? Love you. ^_^

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 11, 2013

    Leah to beth

    Here?!! Read at amber treasure res two

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 14, 2013

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 11, 2013

    Austin

    Goes to resualt one

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 21, 2013

    John C

    A good read. At times a little confusing, things happen so fast. I will read book 2 to see if the storyline flows a little smoother.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 13, 2013

    Death is asome

    Death

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 7, 2013

    Alissa

    I love these book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 3, 2013

    Anon

    Very different from my usual read, but well worth it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 18, 2012

    best book ever read

    This is ad and i love this book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 14, 2012

    Great Plot and Action

    Once started, this book is hard to put down. The twists and turns of the plot were completely engrossing. I hope there is a second book!

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