Jesse Fulton has been tracking a serial killer. It is his obsession, even destroying his private life. George Murdock is the main suspect, but there isn't enough evidence to arrest him. Then after Murdock issues Jesse a challenge to find him in ten days to save the latest victim, he finds him in four.

But there is no victim, and Murdock...well...isn't just dead, he's been ripped apart, limb from limb.

Faced with an improbable mystery, Jesse is soon visited by a man who warns him that Murdock wasn't alone on his murderous journey.

Jesse knows his visitor is no ordinary man. Was he Murdock's final victim?