Synopsis
Best-selling horror writer Peter Stryker is found in a locked suite after what the police describe as a night of "self-mutilation". Classical music playing softly in the background, Stryker laid out medical instruments, filleted his own flesh, and cauterized each wound unto death.

But would a man commit suicide by butchering his own body?

Investigator Jack Burke follows a bloody trail to the answer. He ends up facing both a vicious drug lord out for revenge and an evil cult that seeks to destroy the world by unleashing a deadly new virus.