Young boys are being kidnapped in Chicago and turning up dead . . . strangled to death. Shockingly, the same thing is happening in St. Louis, but there the victims are young girls. Is it one killer seeking different victims in different cites, or could it be two killers at work with frighteningly similar methods? Thats what Joe Keough and his partner, Harriet Conners, have to find out. Keough has been sent from Washington, D.C., as part of the federal Serial Killer Task Force to stop these murders and find the killer or killers before any more children are lost, or bodies found. Its been a while since hes been back in his hometown of St. Louis, but hes going to have to hit the ground running in this deadly race against time and at least one mad strangler.