Martin Vail, Chicago's most brilliant lawyer, has been set up by his enemies to defend a case he cannot win.
Young Aaron Stampler was caught red-handed after a murder that had the city reeling. He looks bound to fry, but he swears he's innocent. In a desperate gamble for justice, Vail must reach deep into the recesses of a killer's mind to flush out a monster of infinite cunning and evil. Explosive, haunting and brilliantly suspenseful, Primal Fear is a truly terrifying read.
A legal battle equal to Presumed Innocent. A nightmare of terror and psychopathology to match The Silence of the Lambs.