18 SECONDS is a gritty and suspenseful police procedural with a
unique twist. Written by George Shuman, a 20-year veteran of the
Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, the novel has all
the ingredients one expects from a first-rate mystery. A brutal and
sadistic criminal operates one-half step ahead of the law
enforcement agencies seeking to end his reign of terror. Along the
way the reader meets innocent victims whose lives are destroyed by
random acts of senseless violence that cannot be explained or
justified. Violence comes to these victims in the same freakish and
capricious manner that