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     A horrific multiple murder takes place at a quiet rural estate, a crime so bloody that police don't even know how many victims they have; heads have been removed and bodies shockingly mutilated. Local police are out of their depth and call in expert help from downtown.
     Det. Remy Duff of the Major Crimes Unit Toronto Police, a specialist in extreme behaviours, is assigned, as is Dr. Sara Silverstone from the provincial Coroner's Office, who is experienced in the carnage of war zone atrocities and suicide bombings.  
     They too are baffled by the ghastly crime scene.
     Who - or what - could commit such a frenzied and savage act?  And why?
     Talk turns to cults and satanic rituals and the provincial police set up a special task force. Pressure for results is intense, made even more so because of the connection of one of the victims to high political office.
     Behind the scenes is a pathetic and twisted soul in the final stages of a neural disease. He is in full mental, emotional and psychological meltdown. Known only by his street name - DC - he knows that he is dying, slowly, and the bitter vengeance he wreaks in his time remaining will leave many lives in ruin and investigators to shudder and wonder: What is out there?
     Neither Duff nor Silverstone buy into the cult theory and they must fight the system at every turn to uncover the truth.
      Duff is partly distracted by his own personal drama - his father is ill and lying near death in intensive care - and Sara Silverstone is facing demons as well; she has PTSD from two tours to war zones and is planning to leave the medical field. But both are haunted by the crazed fury of the crimes and a powerful attraction develops as they work closely to find out what is out there.
     What is out there is DC's secret killing machines, genetically engineered creatures that he uses to advance his improbable - but highly profitable - crime scheme, as well as to work out his own tormented fantasies.

     Duff learns about DC - just a shadowy figure who might be behind the macabre killings - but to find out more he has to go into the heart of DC's turf, to a reclusive farm in the wilds of the back country highlands. It is more an armed camp than merely a farm, fortified by electric fencing, razor wire, perimeter cameras - and an arsenal of weapons.
     A terrible resolution takes place when Duff finds that he is not the only one to arrive at the farm and, once again, DC is able to play out his twisted compulsions on the innocent.
     An ending you won’t see coming!