The identification of a young man's dead body found outside a historic Haworth eating establishment takes on a sinister air when it is discovered that he was a guy Friday at a local artists colony that more closely resembles a cult. 25,000 first printing.

Investigating the death of a fellow tribe member, Charlie Moon hopes that the victim's senator boss will be forthcoming with information and wonders how the disappearance of a young college student may be related.

Assisting a friend in a search for a kidnapped woman, detective Charlie Parker links the abduction to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and the myth of an object known as the Black Angel.