Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And an alcoholic ex-cop-turned-PI must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers - even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder's name - are suddenly turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest unit he's driven his nemesis first back to the bottle . . . and then to the boneyard.