No quarter
Four-year-old Bobby Galloway is a trophy, victim in a vicious child custody battle made all the more savage due to the enormous wealth involved. The case moves from disturbing to deadly with a string of coldly casual murders.
On a personal level, Marian Larch's relationship with her lover, Curt Holland, is put through various tests, but neither can predict the trial by fire that awaits them both. The killer's brilliant insanity has rendered him nearly untouchable -- until he violates Marian Larch's world in a bold, obscene gambit that puts her skills as a police officer and her own inner strength to the ultimate test.