In this hair-raising suspense thriller by the author of THE BURNING GIRL, Tom Thorne is back--but he's not exactly on top of the world. Devastated by the death of his father, put on enforced leave from his job as a police detective, Tom is grief-stricken and frustrated. Now, three of London's homeless have been murdered. Thorne, desperate for action of any kind, goes undercover on London's rough streets, hoping to find out who is responsible for the killings--and ends up uncovering the truth about a chilling incident that took place fifteen years earlier.