Publisher's Synopsis
"A cracking pace and fluid prose... Sizzling." - THE TIMES "Tense, exciting and at times very,very funny...He's worth every penny." - TIME OUT Sarah tries to struggle, but the man holds her. The scream never makes it out of her throat...Sarah is the fifth girl to be abducted by this maniac. Her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live...Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator - his own daughter was one of his victims. But the key to Sarah's whereabouts lies with Ward Hopkins, a man with a past so secret not even he knows about it. As he investigates his past, Ward finds himself drawn into the sinister world of the Straw Men - and into the desperate race to find Sarah, before her time runs out...
