Oscar cleans portable toilets for a living. He loves the job—it takes him to beautiful isolated places, like the Lonely Rocks Wayside on the Oregon Coast.

Nothing really grosses him out either—until he discovers the body, slashed to death, with a knife still in the chest.

When he also sees a break in the guardrail above the ocean, a second car, and a ruined bicycle, Oscar realizes his troubles have just begun.

"Like early Ray Bradbury, Rusch has the ability to switch on a universal dark."

—The London Times