Evil comes in all shapes and sizes. Fareless, lilitlessly powerful and ever-present. It has flourished throughtout the ages with me defining goal, one reason for its existence: to create chaos from the destruction of good. Decorated homicide detective John Hobbes and hispartner. Jonesy have apprehended a demonic serial killer, been present at the killer's trial and witnessed his execution. Now, the pair is suddenly confronted with a new series of stayings commited in the late killer's same perculiar style.