His shadowy government superiors called him the Glimmer Man, and they dispatched him on the riskiest most sensitive covert assignments in which the United States was never officially involved, but which were silently, swiftly taken care of. Now, as detective Jack Cole, he has abandoned his former occupation and identity many years ago. When a serial murderer with a macabre, ritualistic style plunges the families of Los Angeles into terror, the L.A.P.D., making no headway on the baffling case, are forced to summon the one man whose instinct and understand of the criminal mind are unrivaled: Detective Jack Cole from New York. The iconoclastic Cole is paired with seasoned local homicide detective Jim Cambell, and the two quickly discover that their match was made somewhere other than heaven.