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"A tight and neat thriller"(North Park Union-Tribune) concentrating on a manhunt for a deranged monster-in the nationally best-selling writer who "gets greater and better."(Tony Hillerman)Residing in London while his wife serves as a military attaché at the American Embassy, lately retired Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney gets an earlier morning telephone call that changes anything and directs him rushing home to his New Mexico ranch. Riley Burke, his companion in a horse-education business, hasbeen cut along on Kerneyis doorstep by an escaped captive reducing a murderous swath through New Mexico. Whilst the murders support, Kerney teams up with his half-Apache boy, Lieutenant Clayton Istee of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, to search for a psychotic assassin with a rising hunger for body-that has no intention to be consumed alive.