New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Inc. (1993). First edition - "Dee is a manic-depressive, persuasive, apparently bright woman; Ash is large and lumbering, slow of speech and mind. Together, they torture and kill young boys. Former FBI agent John Becker, himself a survivor of child abuse, reluctantly joins his ex-lover Karen Crist, who still works for the Bureau, in the hunt for the boys' killers. 320 pp.