Returned after nearly thirty years to the town he once held sway over, John Stroud learns that no matter how many trails he’s had to tread and how many obstacles he’s had to overcome on his journey to achieve the ultimate in power, more waited ahead. Armed with a ruthless ambition coupled with deadly knowledge, he begins regaining command over his former empire. In his way stand those who now control what once was his as well as the daughter he’d never known. His first act is murder. Effigy is the story of a man obsessed by power and the desire to manipulate reality for his own ends-a man who will do anything necessary to ensure that he gets what he wants. But all his desires lie thwarted and latent until fate presents him with the means to transcend not only his own past, but death itself-if only he can lay his cruel hands on it.