Risk Factor

From author and psychiatrist Charles Atkins, comes a taut psychological thriller about kids gone way bad. For the first time in paerback RISK FACTOR explores the question, "Can a child be born pure evil?"

From the inside cover: A nurse is murdered on a locked ward for teenagers.  The suspect, a seventeen year-old with schizophrenia, becomes catatonic. Enter Dr. Molly Katz, a senior resident and mother of two who, in an attempt to understand how she missed murder in the mind of her patient, gets drawn into the dark world of kids gone bad. Through Molly's eyes we track the steps of a killer from the streets of Boston to the wards of a hospital for the criminally insane. As she struggles to free a boy from his psychosis and the threat of prison, the killer's thirst for blood grows and his eyes turn to Molly and her children. It's nature vs. nurture at its wildest as we face the ultimate question: is evil learned or can a child be born without a soul?

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