Seattle is under seige...The Asian cook in a donut shop is drowned in a vat of boiling oil all for a few hundred dollars...a popular high school girl is roofied and brutally raped at her own Homecoming party...a lowlife drug dealer appears to have died from an OD and no one is surprised, until death proves to have been the result of an embolism. None of these crimes seem connected...yet one dogged police detective begins to suspect they are all the work of the same person. Computer whiz PASCAL BANKS preys on his fellow students at an exclusive prep school by selling them designer drugs. An overweight, pasty-faced outcast, Pascal knows how to exploit the weaknesses of others and soon discovers that nothing he desires is beyond his reach. But he has plenty of enemies, and when his hour of reckoning finally occurs in a courtroom-and it appears his slick lawyer will get him off-witnesses and victims alike conspire to bring him down. TRAIL OF EVIL is an urban suspense novel with a twist: The antagonist is not the typical seasoned psychopath, but a teenage boy without morals and a lethal desire for gratification and control. The story entwines the fates of people from all levels of society-from an abandoned street kid turned eyewitness to a corrupt executive at a carcinogen-dumping drug company to an old-school police detective intent on following the TRAIL OF EVIL-as the killer evades all attempts to bring him to justice.