The desire to kill is becoming contagious in this riveting novel of
conceivable mad science by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author
of The Naturalist.
Computational biologist and serial-killer hunter Dr. Theo Cray receives
an off-the-record request from the FBI to investigate an inexplicable
double homicide. It happened at the excavation site where a murderer had
buried his victims' remains. In custody is a forensic technician in
shock, with no history of aggression. He doesn't remember a thing. His
colleagues don't even recognize the man they thought they knew. But an
MRI reveals something peculiar. And abnormal.
What on earth made him commit murder?
After discovering that a mysterious man has been stalking crime scenes
and stealing forensic data, Cray has a radical and terrifying theory.
Now he must race against time to find a darker version of himself: a
scientist with an obsession in pathological behavior who uses his genius
not to catch serial killers--but to create them.