In novels such as Extreme Instinct and Darkest Instinct, Robert W. Walker has probed the deepest recesses of the criminal mind, bringing us face-to-face with killers as brilliant as they are vicious.

Now Walker returns to the gritty streets of Houston he first explored in Cutting Edge, where Detective Lucas Stonecoat and police psychiatrist Meredyth Sanger face a new predator: the Snatcher. He preys on young teens -- outcasts of society like himself. Outcasts whose sole reason for existence is satisfying a psychopath's horrifying needs...