La agente Smoky Barret conoce muy bien el lado oscuro del alma humana. Ella misma tiene el cuerpo y el espiritu marcados por las horribles cicatrices que le han dejado los asesinos a los que ha dado caza durante años. Ahora se enfrenta a un caso muy extraño: la policia encuentra a toda una familia asesinada y la unica superviviente, Sarah, aparece cubierta de sangre. Ella solo quiere hablar con Smoky, a la que narra la terrible historia de su vida marcada por la venganza de quien llama el extraño, un hombre dispuesto a acabar con cualquiera que ofrezca a Sarah una pizca de amor. Smoky se enfrenta a un sadico inteligente y despiadado al que va a ser muy dificil detener. / In Shadow Man, Cody McFadyen took the suspense thriller where other writers have feared to tread. He introduced readers to a heroine every bit as dark and edgy as the serial killers she hunts: Special Agent Smoky Barrett. Now, in his latest novel, McFadyen brings Agent Barrett back to track down a killer who breaks all the rules. Get ready for a shattering confrontation with the very essence of human evil The girl is sixteen, at the scene of a grisly triple homicide, and has a gun to her head. She claims The Stranger killed her adoptive family, that hes been following her all her life, killing everyone she ever loved, and that no one believes her. No one has. Until now Special Agent Smoky Barrett is head of the violent crimes unit in Los Angeles, the part of the FBI reserved for tracking down the worst of the worst. Her team has been handpicked from among the nations elite law enforcement specialists and they are as obsessed and relentless as the psychos they hunt; theyll have to be to deal with this case.