Most cops question the living. But New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner Paul Konig finds his answers among the dead. Now, after a lifetime of strangled whores and mangled corpses, Konig thinks he has seen it all—until he comes up against a series of brutal sex crimes that are carving a bloody path across the battered city. Piece by piece. he begins to put together a picture of the killer, vowing that this case would be his last. But fate has one final nightmare in store for Paul Konig… forcing him into a desperate race against time to save the beloved daughter he thought was lost forever… and who now may be terror’s next victim. Winner of the 1977 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière’s International Prize!