Publisher's Synopsis
As a foreign correspondent, Alex Callahan has covered famine, plague and war and knows what it is to be afraid. But terror grabs him when, on a summer afternoon, he finds himself enmeshed in the dark side. Amid the hurly-burly of a countryside Renaissance Faire, his six-year-old twins vanish without a trace Then the phone call comes: silence. A plaintive voice - 'Daddy?' - completes Alex's nightmare and sets in motion a juggernaut of frenzy and agony The longer the police search, Alex's certainty grows that time is running out. And when telltale signs reveal a hidden pattern of bizarre abductions, Alex vows to use his investigative skills to rescue his children from the shadowy figure dubbed the Piper.
