One of Jack Grant’s former girlfriends is missing. Her husband hires Jack to investigate, but when her dead and mutilated body is found the husband suddenly turns ugly. Haunted by memories, Jack must reach into his own past to search out the clues that will help him find the killers. He teams with Diana Craig, a police lieutenant in whose jurisdiction the body has been found. When they find themselves in the killers’ sights they realize that their own fate has been as carefully planned as those of the previous victims. In the most personal of the Jack Grant novels, Jack must come to terms with his own memories and desires, his own fears and insecurities, and the thought that the faint glimmers of hope to which he clings can be taken in a moment by an assassin’s hand.