Their lives were in his hands.

He has forty-eight hours to brek the code.

The clock is ticking.

Two murders, each one discovered forty-eight hours after New York City Homicide Detective, Jack Head received a mysterious coded letter he failed to decipher.

When he received the third letter, the pattern was clear... he had forty-eight hours to crack the cipher, or there would be a third victim on his conscience.

Time was running out.

But Jack would soon learn that his growing list of murder victims would be the least of his problems.