Profiler Jefferson Winter is in demand.

Sam Galloway has been set on fire and killed. The film of the death is sent to the police. Winter is in little doubt it is the work of a serial killer.

In Louisiana, in the small Eagle Creek community taken over by the Morgan family oil-barons, he chooses to work with Taylor, a giant of a cop who works for Captain Shepherd. Winter realises he is smart and can be trusted.

The killer is clever, knowing the risks involved with murder and how to cover any evidence; it points to someone who knows how a cop thinks.