Triptych

Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in Atlanta, is after a serial rapist whose attacks are getting more violent. The hunt pairs him with homicide detective Michael Ormewood, whose troubled past makes him hard for Will to stand. Together they investigate a brutal killing in one of the city's housing projects.

A third strand follows John Shelley. At fifteen he was prosecuted as an adult over a rape and a murder, and now he is released after twenty years in prison. Once outside, he discovers a link between himself and the man the police are chasing, and one wrong move could return him to a cell.

Will is hiding dyslexia, certain that it would finish his career if anyone learned of it. Angie Polaski, a vice cop he has loved for years, stays close to the edges of the case.

The novel is the first in the Will Trent series. It moves between several points of view and is dark, graphic crime fiction, concerned with the violence people commit and the damage they carry afterward.