The first corpse was found hooded, bound, and naked,
kneeling on a bare mattress in a seedy hotel room. This was
no ordinary murder but rather the work of a killer driven by
something special, something spectacular. The fact that the
dead man was a convicted rapist recently released from
prison only increases the bizarre nature of the gruesome
crime ... and the police's reluctance to apprehend the
perpetrator. It's the body count that troubles Detective
Inspector Tom Thorne, as brutal slaying follows brutal
slaying, each victim more deserving than the last. Though he
has no sympathy for the dead, Thorne knows he must put an
end to a cruelly calculating vigilante's bloody justice
before time runs out -- and a horrifically efficient serial
killer targets a life worth fighting for.