Delusion in DeathDelusion in Death poses the chilling question: What would cause someone to want so many people, surely many of them strangers, to slaughter each other? The scene that greets Lieutenant Eve Dallas one terrible evening in New York is more shocking than she has ever witnessed. The downtown bar is strewn with bodiesoffice workers who have been sliced, bludgeoned, or hacked to death with the nearest weapon available, turning on each other in a desperate