Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars.
Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Motley did twelve years in Dannemora, nursing a grudge. He is back in Manhattan with an alias and a plan to destroy his old captor.
Across Ohio, a witness is slaughtered in a staged tragedy. In midtown, a casual acquaintance plunges from a high-rise window. Friends and former lovers — even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder's name — are turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest until he's driven his nemesis back to the bottle...and then to the boneyard.
Walking a tightrope of diner coffee and AA meetings, Scudder can only watch the bodies fall. Motley is tracking his routine, leaving taunting messages and daring him to intervene.
Yet an ex-cop who broke the rules cannot hide when the reckoning comes.
