Cold, Cold Heart - Tapa dura

Former CIA agent Mike Culley has been trying to block out the din of voices bouncing off concrete that has been his constant companion since he arrived in prison fourteen months before. He had lied to Congress to protect the Agency. His loyalty had been repaid by his superiors selling him out. He had lost everything he loved ... except his daughter Jenny.
When a series of brutal murders terrorizes a quiet Virginia campus, Culley's former bosses offer him a deal. In exchange for his freedom, Culley must capture the man they suspect is responsible for the savage killing spree. His name is John Malik; he's brilliant, bizarre, and deadly. And Mike Culley knows him inside and out.
No one but Culley could hunt down this master of subterfuge and stealth - even with Julie Houser, a former NYPD detective turned investigative reporter, on his tail. Thrown together in a nerve-twisting race against time, Culley and Julie form an uneasy alliance - Culley to get his man, Julie to get the story of her life.
But bitterness has made Mike Culley a dangerous man, with a secret agenda of his own. And Malik's cunning choice for his next victim is one that would make Culley's hunt more personal and more shattering. For Mike Culley, what began as a job for hire has become a fight for his life, for his pride, and for everything he holds dear.

an defector given a new life in America by the U.S. government. Now he's exploded into violence--driven by a mad lust to kill young women.

An embarrassed CIA knows it must stop him--and that only one man can do the job.  But former agent Mike Culley is in prison, sold out by his bosses, stripped of his family and everything he holds dear.  Now they'll free him: to hunt down a killer before he kills again.

The CIA has betrayed Culley once.  It won't happen again.  He will find his man.  And with the help of a beautiful reporter, he'll bring him down.  But suddenly the rules change.  Culley's target has answered back: snatching the one person who means more to Mike Culley than life itself.
From the Paperback edition.