From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful
reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you
know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the
myth, the terror, and the magic of . . .
Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is
Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality
artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He
arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer
who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in
himself. Deucalion's path will lead him to cool, tough police detective
Carson O'Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are
tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more
terrifying: an entire race of killers who are much more-and less-than
human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor
Helios-once known as Frankenstein.