From international bestselling author Paul Cleave comes a gripping thriller about a dedicated family man, who may or may not have inherited his serial killer father s penchant for violence.
WINNER OF NEW ZEALAND S PRESTIGIOUS NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2011
Edward Hunter has it all a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future . . . and a very dark past.
Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in New Zealand s most hellish penitentiary. That man was Edward s father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance in his world. Is Edward destined to be just like his father, to become a man of blood? A true master of the genre, Paul Cleave unveils a brutally vivid picture of a killer s mind and a city of fallen angels captured at the ends of the earth."