Reg Butler, disenchanted by his seeming inability to settle down after the loss of his wife, and more than a little lonely, buys a run-down cabin in the hills so that he can leave his old life behind and, maybe, create a new one with an old friend. He is soon plunged into a nightmare of savage violence when a spectre from his past arrives to take revenge aided by a vicious gang of thugs bent on Reg's destruction. This is the third novel in the series by Andrew Giles.