A serial kidnapper is targeting children and demanding the most macabre of ransoms. By the time Solomon Glass is put on the case, a fourth child has been taken and two women are dead. There are few leads to go on and the police commissioner is looking for someone to blame. Glass is a man with a past. He's still trying to shrug off an internal investigation from a year ago, and he doesn't see eye to eye with his chief. But as a homicide cop he's the best there is, and so begins a game of intellectual cat-and-mouse between Glass and the perpetrator - someone for whom no game is too bizarre. And all the while the clock is ticking down on the life of the latest victim ...
