Publisher's Synopsis
Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mercer - a highly-decorated detective, and author of a bestselling true crime book. When a man is found burned to death, the evidence points the 50/50 Killer who targets young couples, subjecting them to a single night of torture. Only one ever survives until dawn. Then a tortured young man walks into a police station, his memory in tatters. He knows he's escaped from the woods where his girlfriend is being held captive. But the team know that by fleeing, he has sealed his girlfriend's fate ...