Jahre nach seiner Verurteilung kennt der Psychopath Max Cady nur ein Ziel: Er will sich an seinem Anwalt Sam Bowden rachen. Cadys Prasenz wird zunehmend bedrohlich, als er Bowdens langsam auseinander brockelnde Familie immer enger einkreist. Nachdem Sam erkannt hat, dass er nichts unternehmen kann, um seine Frau und seine Tochter zu schutzen, muss er auf unkonventionelle Masnahmen zuruckgreifen ...
Über den Autor John D. Macdonald
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John D. MacDonald was an American novelist and short-story writer. His works include the Travis McGee series and the novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear. In 1962 MacDonald was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; in 1980, he won a National Book Award. In print he delighted in smashing the bad guys, deflating the pompous, and exposing the venal. In life, he was a truly empathetic man; his friends, family, and colleagues found him to be loyal, generous, and practical. In business, he was fastidiously ethical. About being a writer, he once expressed with gleeful astonishment, “They pay me to do this! They don’t realize, I would pay them.” He spent the later part of his life in Florida with his wife and son. He died in 1986.
