Every city has its secrets. But none as awful as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed guy of mysterious origins, a sleight-of-reality musician who has journeyed the centuries having a secret worse than loss of life. He will come in New Orleans like a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the mankind that is missing in himself. Deucalion’s route will business lead him to cool, tough law enforcement detective Carson O’Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will quickly discover signals of something far more terrifying: an entire competition of killers who are much more-and less-than human being and, deadliest of most, their deranged, near-immortal manufacturer: Victor Helios-once known as Frankenstein.

“Koontz is an excellent plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the expectations and doubts of our amount of time in broad strokes and details, using well-known fiction to explore the individual condition [and] demonstrating that the real horror of life is found not in monsters, but inside the human psyche.” -USA Today