*** Not suitable for children due to scenes of a violent nature. ****From the Author of 'Pandora's Box' comes the dark, disturbing prequel to the Detective Macaulay Murders:Two victims have been slain; their smoldering charred remains discarded on the beach on Long Island, New York.Three other U.S. States report similar homicides: cold cases of victims which bear the same injuries, and remain unsolved.FBI Agent Nick Benson is assigned to the lead NYPD homicide Detective, Finkel Macaulay, to uncover the suspect's motive for the sacrifices, and to take the fight against crime to a whole new new level of intensity.Benson risks everything-including Macaulay's life-for the chance to make things right; as losing her is the only way he can hope to save himself.But, ghosts from his traumatic past return to haunt him, leaving him more determined to shut down the Operation before any more murders can take place.