Pacific Heights: A Novel

Paul Harper

Henry Holt and Company, Jul 5, 2011 - Fiction - 368 pages

A San Francisco detective becomes entangled with a private intelligence agency as he investigates what appears to be a traceless form of murder

A couple meets in a seedy hotel room for an illicit affair, the rules of which are simple: no names, no personal details, the specifics of their lives off-limits. It's all very exciting to Lore Cha—the wife of a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur—who thinks their forbidden meetings and taboo sexual encounters are exactly the escape she's been looking for: every single detail is as she imagined. But that's the problem. Phillip Krey anticipates every thought before she has it. He plays out her untold fantasies down to the last detail. His insights are beyond intuitive; they're invasive, even frightening. It's as if he has access into her mind. Across town, Elise Currin, wife to one of San Francisco's most powerful businessmen, is also seeing Krey, and is slowly being driven insane by his ability to tap in to her most private desires. When it's revealed that these women are also seeing the same therapist, a chilling scenario unfolds, and the quiet, plotting detective Marten Fane is called in.

Slowly Fane uncovers a plot that goes beyond Krey to reveal a powerful private sector, secret government involvement, and one of the most elaborate and monstrous psychological experiments imaginable: a traceless form of murder.

" ... Harper succeeds in sympathetically portraying Elise and Lore as they face genuine danger. " - Publishers Weekly

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 11
• Section 3: 19
• Section 4: 27
• Section 5: 35
• Section 6: 43
• Section 7: 49
• Section 8: 57
• Section 9: 63
• Section 10: 69
• Section 11: 77
• Section 12: 85
• Section 13: 91
• Section 14: 99
• Section 15: 107
• Section 16: 113
• Section 17: 123
• Section 18: 133
• Section 19: 139
• Section 20: 147
• Section 21: 155
• Section 22: 163
• Section 23: 171
• Section 24: 179
• Section 25: 183
• Section 26: 191
• Section 27: 199
• Section 28: 207
• Section 29: 215
• Section 30: 221
• Section 31: 229
• Section 32: 235
• Section 33: 243
• Section 34: 249
• Section 35: 257
• Section 36: 265
• Section 37: 275
• Section 38: 281
• Section 39: 287
• Section 40: 293
• Section 41: 299
• Section 42: 305
• Section 43: 311
• Section 44: 321
• Section 45: 329
• Section 46: 335
• Section 47: 343

About the author

Paul Harper is the pseudonym of David Lindsey, the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen previous titles. A native Texan, he lives with his wife in Austin.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Pacific Heights: A Novel
• Author: Paul Harper
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, 2011
• ISBN: 1429995262, 9781429995269
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Thrillers / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense