The cops have dubbed him "The Boulevard Butcher." His calling cards are a written invitation and a taste for mutilation. His prey are the prostitutes plying their trade on the night streets of the Texas panhandle's sleaziest district. With his usual brilliant aplomb-and the eager assistance of lovely law student Lydia Fairchild-Branson finds a familiar method in the madness: that of one of history's most notorious serial killers. And if Branson's hunch is right, the last murder will be the most unspeakable. Unless Branson can set a trap using Lydia as bait...