By decreasing the population, he strives to prevent hunger, crime, and unemployment. His actions, however draconian, seem to be working. Ichabod is unlike anything the Philicity police have seen before. He is able to alter his MO and even his signature, and the only clues he leaves behind point toward another killer. Cunning and perfectly sane, raised by loving parents in a wealthy childhood, and leaving no trace of himself, Ichabod is the perfect killer--and perfectly undetectable. There is only one detective who sees him for what he Stephen Van Tassel. And that is only because Stephen is just as singular as Ichabod. Suffering from 5 sense synesthesia, the young gumshoe makes connections no one else perceives, and he never forgets a thing. His obsession with Ichabod grows, even as the killer evolves from serial to mass murder to terrorist, inciting gang wars and wild media theories. But as fewer citizens suffer from hunger, and the unemployment rates plummet, Stephen can't help but wonder if Ichabod might be on to something . . .