Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip -- lured into the Santa Monica Mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle and no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the essential question: Why?

Working with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli police inspector, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt for human life.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest. An Alex Delaware Novel. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 9780345539038 (January, 2013), 501 p., $9.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
Alex Delaware, The Crime Reader, returns in Survival of the Fittest - a compulsive novel from Jonathan Kellerman, the master of psychological suspense.
Weaving together the threads of a mystery that lead from a child's murder to a young scientist's suicide, Kellerman draws one of the most chilling, frighteningly realistic portraits of evil you will ever experience.

The mentally disabled daughter of a diplomat is killed in cold blood in a deserted corner of the Santa Monica mountains. Her father adamantly denies the possibility of a political motive, which leaves LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his friend Alex Delaware to pose the question: why? The father is so intent on controlling the investigation that Alex and Milo start to wonder if he wants to find the truth - or keep it buried. After another killing, within days Alex finds himself ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of his career. Driven to find answers, Alex goes undercover, alone, to expose the smug brutality of a murderous conspiracy and a terrifying contempt for human life.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest. Headline, ISBN: 9780755342761 (February, 2009), 536 p., £7.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip -- lured into the Santa Monica Mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle and no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the essential question: Why?

Working with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli police inspector, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt for human life.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest. An Alex Delaware Novel. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0345458842 (October, 2007), 519 p., $7.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip -- lured into the Santa Monica Mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle and no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the essential question: Why?

Working with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli police inspector, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt for human life.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest. An Alex Delaware Novel. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0345458842 (October, 2002), 519 p., $7.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip--lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the disturbing question: Why?

Working together with Daniel Sharavi, the brilliant Israeli police inspector introduced in Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theater, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt for human life.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest. An Alex Delaware Novel. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553572326 (November, 1998), 519 p., $7.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
A retarded child is ritually murdered while on a school outing in a nature reserve. The police, led by Milo Sturgis, have got nowhere and are hampered by the girl's parents: she was the daughter of an Israeli diplomat and her father refuses to allow any publicity for fear that the killing was anti-Semitic and that the death would encourage others. But Milo suspects the murderer is more 'ordinary', and with the help of Alex Delaware, tries to track any previous murders of retarded or disabled children. With painstaking research they reveal a ghastly trail of slaughter. In the midst of this they realise there is another investigator following their tracks - Daniel Shavari from Jerusalem, who last appeared in THE BUTCHER'S THEATRE - and whose orders may go beyond merely identifying the killer.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest. Featuring Alex Delaware. Warner Books, ISBN: 0751520187 (August, 1998), 502 p., £5.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
A retarded child is ritually murdered while on a school outing in a nature reserve. The police, led by Milo Sturgis, have got nowhere and are hampered by the girl's parents: she was the daughter of an Israeli diplomat and her father refuses to allow any publicity for fear that the killing was anti-Semitic and that the death would encourage others.

But Milo suspects the murderer is more 'ordinary', and with the help of Alex Delaware, tries to trace any previous murders of retarded or disabled children. With painstaking research they reveal a ghastly trail of slaughter. In the midst of this they realise there is another investigator followlng their tracks - Daniel Shavari from .Jerusalem, who last appeared in The Butchers Theatre- and whose orders may go beyond merely identiifying the killer.

With skill and empathy, Jonathan Kellerman has crated a Thriller of savage tension, and a novel which lays bare the selfish preoccupations of today's 'civilised' society.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest. The New Alex Delaware Thriller. Little, Brown, ISBN: 0316640689 (December, 1997), 451 p., £15.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
In this riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Clinic, Jonathan Kellerman proves once again why he is "crime fiction's hottest author." And psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware confronts an almost unimaginably cruel, arrogant, and obsessed killer who takes as much pleasure in matching wits with the police as in robbing human life.

The slightly retarded fifteen-year-old daughter of a diplomat dies on a school field trip -- forced or lured into a deserted corner of the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father adamantly denies the possibility of a political motive, which leaves LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his longtime friend psychologist Alex Delaware to pose the question: Why?

There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault -- and there are no easy answers. Just one innocent youngster... dead.

The victim's father is so intent on controlling the investigation that Alex and Milo start to wonder if he wants to bring out the truth -- or make sure it stays buried. Then there is another killing, and within days Alex finds himself ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of his career.

Driven to find answers, he and Milo will work closely with Inspector Daniel Sharavi, the brilliant Israeli police detective introduced in Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theater. In the end, though, it is Alex who will go undercover, alone, to expose the smug brutality of a murderous conspiracy and a terrifying contempt for human life. Weaving together the threads of a mystery that lead from a child's murder to a young scientist's suicide, Jonathan Kellerman draws one of the most chilling, frighteningly realistic portraits of evil you will ever experience.

Jonathan Kellerman: Survival of the Fittest. An Alex Delaware Novel. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553089234 (November, 1997), 401 p., $24.95.