Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is in South Dakota when she gets the call she's been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has a special present for her.

Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and a new father. He gets a call, too — from the widow of a friend who died recently. Previously in his FBI career, the friend worked on the famous case tracking the killer known as The Poet. That fact makes some of the elements of his death doubly suspicious.

Harry Bosch finds himself square in the path of the most ruthless and inventive murderer he has ever encountered.

This story contains strong and sexually explicit language, and some scenes described may be disturbing.

David Soul learned his screen skills appearing in episodes of shows Bewitched and Star Trek . After seeing him in the Dirty Harry film Magnum Force , Aaron Spelling cast him in Starsky and Hutch, making him a household name worldwide, and incidentally giving a great boost to the musical career which had been running in parallel with his acting: four chart albums. Future plans include film, television, stage and radio projects on both sides of the Atlantic. This is his second audiobook reading.