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Homicide Lt. Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are at a case where a naked young man lies dead in the street, the apparent victim of a collision with a moving van hurtling through suburbia in the darkness. Any thoughts of accidental death vanish when a blood trail leads to a nearby home and a butchered young woman. Is the mystery man out in the street collateral damage or will he turn out to be the key to solving a grisly double homicide? As the psychologist and the detective explore L.A.'s meanest streets, they peel back layer after layer of secrets and encounter a savage, psychologically twisted, almost unthinkable motive for violence and bloodshed.