A very dangerous secret can easily spell your demise. Newspaper publisher Tyler Dodd and homicide detective Ron Buckner are well aware of that, and for a year their very dangerous secret had become more secure. But a series of gruesome murders in Burbank and Redondo Beach threaten their ability to maintain their secret. It necessitates once again that they do what they do so well together: identify and capture the killer. But it will be very difficult because this one is extremely clever. Shortly after their search begins they are contacted by a man who operates in the deep dark shadows of society. He is a phantom criminologist with amazing intellectual powers and he is out to unravel their dangerous secret. He is ominously explicit on that point. Of course, he is an immediate threat made more threatening by the fact that no-one has ever seen him. No one knows who - or where he is. Their secret is hidden in the shadows as is the interloper. Are they doomed by the irony?