Eight years ago, a police unit that included seasoned forensic expert David Hunter managed to catch “the Dartmoor maniac” Jerome Monk, who had terrorized a provincial town. The members of the team have long since lost track of one another. But...
Monk escaped from custody.
And now one of the people who worked the Monk case has been murdered. The second is wounded and suffers from amnesia. And the third seems, for his part, to be keeping a great deal back...
Is Monk trying to settle accounts with those who put him behind bars? That is the police version. But Hunter, conducting his own investigation, is becoming more and more convinced that someone else is behind the case of the “Dartmoor maniac”...