A storm is coming to Cliffside, California, and with it comes a killer.
His name is Clay Saunders,
and he walks in two worlds. Born with a caul, Saunders sees ghosts. But
to him, the world of the dead is very much like the world of the
living. It's a realm of eternal pain – inescapable and relentless – that cuts as deeply as the razor edge of the hired killer's K-bar
knife.
Saunders has spilled blood
on Florida sand, and the snow-covered Canadian prairie, and the black
lava of Hawaii. His latest target is Diabolos Whistler, leader of a
satanic cult. Exiled in Mexico, Whistler is alone when Saunders stabs
him just above the first vertebrae... alone, except for the mummies
stacked like so much cordwood in his library.
But the living who await the
killer's arrival in Cliffside are more frightening than the decayed
corpses of the dead. There's Whistler's daughter Circe, a tattooed
siren who leads Saunders to a bed of iron and satin...and Circe's
bodyguard, a seven foot student of Egyptology whose sarcophagus rests
in a redwood pyramid... and Janice Ravenwood, a new age medium with a
startling hidden gift.
And there's a little girl, a
ghost held prisoner by vengeful revenants. Only Clay Saunders can save
her. To do that, he must bridge the worlds of the living and the dead
in an unforgettable climax of darkness and blood.
