Gamemaker

"It was the catch of a lifetime...As baseball star Willie Bush snagged the long drive deep in center field, fifty thousand eyewitnesses--and two million TV viewers--watched his head blown off in deadly color. Who did it? Why? And what is the significance of the black plastic chess piece found beside the sniper's rifle left on the roof of Yankee Stadium? Sam Knight and the special police force assigned to the bizarre, apparently motiveless murder have almost nothing to go on, but the evidence piles up, clue by grisly clue, as professional athletes are attacked in crowded arenas all over New York by a psychopath whose obsessive cunning keeps him one step ahead of his pursuers. The press wants answers, and will go to great lengths to find them. The mayor wants results, fast, but his venal political considerations obstruct the investigation. And the killer wants results, too; so far, he's batting a thousand. Knight and his crack team find themselves in a clutch situation in this gripping, fast-paced thriller. There are no time outs as the clock runs down to the final moments and they struggle to anticipate the game plan of a madman whose sport is murder"--Dust jacket.