A murderous battle against overwhelming odds in Africa over a hundred years ago and a crazed killer on a mission of primal vengeance today.bloody age-old rituals of unspeakable mutilation and their grisly echoes in a series of atrocities in a bustling modern city.the invocation of sinister spirits from the shadowlands on the borders of life and death and a heroic lawman on trial for an especially bestial and sickening slaughter.What thin red line from the heart of darkness connected these horrors ancient and modern? Once again, detectives Robert DeClercq, Zinc Chandler and their colleagues in the Special X unit of the RCMP find themselves up against a fiendishly complex case of violent death and occult terror rooted in a nightmare past of blood and butchery. Here is a story of homicidal madness and uncanny dread to bring the dead themselves to screaming wakefulness"

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