When police officer Carl Houseman starts his shift late one night, he thinks it will be another uneventful evening, but then he finds out that four people have been murdered in his quiet town, and he begins a manhunt that leads him to a Satanic cult, lesbian lovers, and his own fellow policemen.

Carl Houseman, the deputy sheriff of rural Nation County, Iowa, leaves home to enter the world of international intrigue in the sixth in Donald Harstad's critically acclaimed series. Houseman's daughter, Jane, has been studying abroad in the UK. When her best friend Emma Schiller has been kidnapped, Houseman, desperate to protect his daughter and help her friend, accepts Scotland Yard's invitation to take him on as a consultant. Emma's trail leads...