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Death Match, Lincoln Child

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Death Match

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Lincoln Child

Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe were the perfect couple: young,attractive, and ideally matched. But the veil of perfection can mask manyblemishes. When the Thorpes are found dead in their tasteful Flagstaff livingroom (having committed double suicide), alarms go off in the towering Manhattanoffices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech matchmaking company whosespectacular success, and legendary secrecy, has inspired awe around the world.The Thorpes, few people knew, were more than the quintessential happy couple, theywere Eden's first perfect match. A short time later, Christopher Lash, a gifted former FBIforensic psychologist, receives an urgent plea from Eden to perform a quick,and quiet, investigation into the deaths. Lash's psychological autopsy reveals nothing suspicious, butinadvertently dredges up the memories of a searing personal tragedy he has keptat bay for years. The situation changes suddenly when a second Eden couple isfound dead, by all appearances another double suicide. Now Eden, particularlyRichard Silver, the company's brilliant and reclusive founder, has no choicebut to grant Lash unprecedented access to its most guarded secrets if he is tohave any chance of determining what is going wrong. The hidden world hediscovers is a stunning labyrinth of artificial intelligence, creative genius,and a melding of technology that does indeed, to Lash's surprise, deliver onEden's promise to its clients: the guarantee of a perfect, lifelong mate. ButLash's involvement in the investigation becomes more personal and dangerousthan he could have imagined, nearly as soon as it begins

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