The evil that men do lives after them. The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Breathless.BillyLucas confesses to a shocking crime. He's only fourteen years old buthe's a sadistic killer and proud of it. He's in the secure wing of thestate hospital but ... he seems too wise for his age, not crazy, tooknowing. About the nature of evil, and whether it lives on beyond death.Too knowing about other crimes that took place before he was born ...Other murders from twenty years ago surface in the mind of DetectiveJohn Calvino as he interviews young Billy Lucas. Calvino carries away asigned confession ... and a sense of great danger. That night he feelsthat somehow Billy has come home with him, to his family. Over the nextweeks, this haunted feeling does not go away. It only gets worse. Thenanother killing spree happens, just as and when John Calvino dreaded itwould. Billy is safely locked away, but not the ghost, if the ghostexists, that links these murders with past crimes, and with JohnCalvino. Anything could happen, and surely will... again.