TY - BOOK AU - Walters,Minette TI - The devil's feather SN - 174114647X AV - PR 6073 .A444 D48 2005 U1 - 823.92 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Crows Nest, NSW PB - Allen & Unwin KW - Crime investigation KW - Fiction KW - Murder victims KW - Crime analysis KW - Suspense fiction KW - Criminal investigation KW - Serial murders KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - gsafd N2 - ADVENTURE / THRILLER. When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuters correspondent Connie Burns questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. Connie believes a foreigner is responsible - a man who claims to have been in the SAS and works as a bodyguard to a Lebanese diamond trader. She remembers him from Kinshasa when he was a mercenary for Laurent Kabila's regime, and she suspects he uses the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women. Two years later in Iraq, the consequences of her second attempt to expose him are devastating. Terrified, degraded and destroyed, she goes into hiding in England and tries to rebuild her life before making the hazardous decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer, knowing he will come looking for her ER -