Seven days after being abducted the body of a 20-year-old woman is found on a green patch of grass by the Los Angeles International Airport. She has been left with her limbs stretched out and spread apart placing her in a five-point human star. The autopsy reveals that she had been murdered in a most terrible way. Detective Robert Hunter who leads LAPD's Special Section Ultra-Violent Unit is assigned the case. But almost immediately a second body turns up. Surrounded by new challenges as every day passes Detective Hunter finds himself chasing a monster. A predator whose past hides a terrible secret whose thirst for murder can never be quenched.

Part of the Robert Hunter series.