Velocity (The Karen Vail Novels) - Softcover

FBI profiler Karen Vail returns in Velocity, national best-selling author Alan Jacobson's most explosive thriller to date. Vail's boyfriend, Detective Robby Hernandez, has disappeared. There are no clues to his whereabouts, other than a blood stain - and connections to a serial killer operating in wine country.

Vail's efforts are thwarted until her colleague, hooks her up with Hector DeSantos, a covert operative who has a knack for finding difficult to locate information. But DeSantos is reluctant to work his valuable informants for what he views as Vail's crusade to find her lover.

That is, until Vail pries loose long-buried secrets, lies and deceptions. It's information that even DeSantos can't ignore, a discovery that reveals larger forces at play - forces which propel Vail and DeSantos into a frantic search that takes them from the wineries of Napa Valley to the monuments of Washington, D.C., the wealthy beach enclaves of San Diego and the bright excesses of Las Vegas.

Alan Jacobson is the national bestselling author of several critically acclaimed novels. In order to take readers behind the scenes to places they might never go, Jacobson has embedded himself in many federal agencies, including spending several years working with two senior profilers at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s vaunted Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico. During that time, Jacobson edited four published FBI research papers on serial offenders, attended numerous FBI training courses, worked with the head firearms instructor at the academy, and received ongoing personalized instruction on serial killers—which continues to this day. He has also worked with high-ranking members of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the US Marshals Service, the New York Police Department, SWAT teams, local bomb squads, branches of the US military, chief superintendents and detective sergeants at Scotland Yard, criminals, armorers, helicopter pilots, chief executive officers, historians, and Special Forces operators. These experiences have helped him to create gripping, realistic stories and characters. His series protagonist, FBI profiler Karen Vail, resonates with both female and male readers, and writers such as Nelson DeMille, James Patterson, and Michael Connelly have called Vail one of the most compelling heroes in suspense fiction.

Jacobson’s books have been published internationally, and several have been optioned for film and television. A number have been named to Best of the Year lists.

Jacobson has been interviewed extensively on television and radio, including on CNN, NPR, and multiple ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox network affiliates.