The New Millennium...
Vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a New Year's Eve party in Daikaiju Plaza in Tokyo,
Twenty years ago John Costello's life, as he knew it, ended. He & his beautiful girlfriend, Nadia, were victims of the deranged ' Hammer of God' killer who terrorised New Jersey City throughout the summer of 1984. Nadia was killed instantly. John survived, but withdrew from society, emerging only to work as a crime researcher for a major newspaper. Damaged he may be, but no one in New Jersey knows more about serial killers than John Costello. Then a new spate of murders starts
- all seemingly random & unrelated
- until John discovers a complex pattern that links them. But could this dark knowledge be about to threaten his life?