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Scott Sigler reinvented the alien-invasion tale in his best-selling books Contaminated and Contagious… restarted the biotech thriller in Ancestor…now, in his most bold, sweeping book up to now, he performs his magic on the supernatural thriller, getting us in the frightening underworld of undercover predators that just his twisted mind can create.   Murder investigator Bryan Clauser is dropping his mind.    How otherwise to describe the desires he retains having—dreams that reflection, with difficult precision, the grisly serial killings happening throughout Bay Area? How otherwise to describe the emotions these desires trigger in disgust, not terror, but exhilaration?    As Bryan and his long-time companion, Lawrence “Pookie” Chang, examine the killings, they discover that things are even stranger than they in the beginning appear. For the sufferers are opponents of the seemingly normal small boy—a child who's gripped by exactly the same desires that worry Bryan.  Meanwhile, a shadowy vigilante, seemingly armed with superhuman forces, is offered eliminating the killers.  And Bryan and Pookie’s superiors—from the mayor on down—seem unusually wanting to keep consitently the investigators from finding the truth.    Questioning their own sanity and stripped of his badge, Bryan starts to believe that he’s happened in to the crosshairs of the shadow war that's gripped his town for greater than a century—a war fought by a competition of murders residing in San Francisco’s unfamiliar, subterranean ruins, emerging during the night to feast upon those who'll not be missed.    And as Bryan understands the reality about their own personal connections for the murders, he finds that those who matter most to him have been in human danger…and that he could be the only guy gifted—or cursed—with the ability to complete struggle with the nocturnals.