With his surrogate son, Cody, in a hospital in a coma, a troubled Jack Taylor takes the opportunity to assist Ridge, his old friend from the guards, with a horrific case involving the crucifixion slaying of a boy in Galway, in an investigation that brings him face to face with old ghosts and leads to a second killing, the burning death of the murdered boy's sister. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.