The Devil's Teardrop

The Devil's Teardrop is a 1999 novel by author Jeffery Deaver, first published by Simon & Schuster. Like many of Deaver’s works, it is a suspense-crime novel with several plot twists. Deaver, whose suspense fiction has been hailed as "a thrill ride between covers" by the Los Angeles Times, imagines a chilling scenario: a killer set unleash a devastating plot of murder and mayhem on the last night of the millennium. The devil's teardrop is also a nickname for obsidian. It was the basis for the 2010 TV movie of the same name, starring Tom Everett Scott and Natasha Henstridge.