It’s his last day on the job and honest Detective John Hartigan has one loose end left to tie up. Little Nancy Callahan, age eleven, has been kidnapped by a lunatic who likes to hear little girls scream. Nancy isn’t his first victim, and she won’t be his last—unless Hartigan can put a stop to him, no matter how important the heinous psycho’s father is. But this case is drowning in more perversion than even Hartigan realized . . .

If justice is possible in this city, this man is going to start his retirement with justice.