From the acclaimed author of the 'Burke' private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. They call him 'Ghost' because he is so nondescript as to be invisible. Once he travelled with a woman who called herself 'Shella'. Now Shella has vanished into a wilderness of strip clubs and peep shows, and Ghost is hunting for her, guided by the bond that can only exist between two people damaged past the point of redemption.The resulting novel is utterly compelling; the thriller re-imagined as a bleak romance of the damned. Shella is nothing less that a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators.
