'For a second she thinks she is dead. Then she opens her eyes and wishes she was.' The press call him the Black River Killer and his stats are 16 murders; not captured in 20 years; the FBI's best profiler - Jack King - burned out and beaten, his career shattered. Jack and his wife now run a hotel in Tuscany. And though he still gets nightmares, rural Italy is a whole world away from BRK's brutal crime scenes in Southern Carolina. Or so Jack thought ...As Italian cops discover the body of a young woman - her remains mutilated like BRK's victims - a gruesome package arrives at the FBI, twin events that conspire to lure the profiler back into the hunt. But this time, who is the spider and who is the fly?

Jack King is about to learn the truth behind the saying: SEE NAPLES AND DIE... Expert profiler Jack King is on the trail of Luciano Creed, a psychologist obsessed with the cases of five missing woman. Jack is convinced Creed is not all he seems ... Then the burnt bones of one of the women are uncovered on the foothills of Mount Vesuvius. Within days a serial killer's secret graveyard is laid bare. For the Carbinieri's newest detective, Sylvia Tomms, it's a tough first case and she calls on Jack's expertise. But Naples is in the grip of the terrifying Camorra mob. And Jack and Sylvia soon discover just how dangerous hunting one killer can be - in a city where murder has become a way of life... A menacing new thriller from the author of Spider, featuring FBI Profiler Jack King