Hubert Tézenas Libri

Dennis, Kevin e Mars volevano pagarsi l'ingresso al cinema. Per questo avevano deciso di rapinare un distributore di benzina. Purtroppo il proprietario ha reagito e la rapina è finita in un dramma. Ora sono barricati in una villa e tengono sotto sequestro il proprietario, il signor Smith, e i suoi figli. Jeff Talley voleva solo la pace dopo il suo fallimento come negoziatore di ostaggi. Per questo ha accettato l'incarico di capo della polizia di Brisco Camino, un paesino dove non succede mai nulla. Purtroppo ora ci sono delle vite in pericolo. Glen Hozell aveva affidato a Smith due dischetti molto importanti per una famiglia mafiosa della zona, ma ora rischiano di cadere nelle mani di criminali dilettanti o, peggio, della polizia.

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared. Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...

After the slaughter of his girlfriend by an unknown assassin, Nicholas Newman wants only to start afresh. However, when a link is made between killings across Europe, he reluctantly agrees to help the police again. When attempts are made on his life, he realizes his nightmare has only just begun.