When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave
Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their
street.One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible
happened - something that ended their friendship and changed all
three boys forever.
Twenty-five years later, Scan Devine is a homicide
detective.Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And
Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his
demons at bay - demons that urge him to do horrific things.
When Jimmy Marcus" daughter is found murdered, Scan Devine is
assigned to the case. His personal life unravelling, he must go
back into a world he thought he"d left behind to confront not only
the violence of the present but the nightmares of his past. His
investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy Marcus, who
finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with
brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, who came home the
night Jimmy"s daughter died covered in someone else"s blood...
