Bed of Nails

Isolated in Ashworth House, an asylum for the criminally insane, is the Ripper. He believes he’s the notorious butcher who terrorized Whitechapel more than a century ago. He talks of time travel, infinity, and the occult. In the black hole of his imagination, he re-enacts the crimes. In the darkness of his heart, he still craves the thrill of the kill. Thank God he can’t escape-but with such an ingenious mind for murder, the Ripper doesn’t have to. The ghastly crimes he manipulates from his padded cell take Zinc Chandler and the Special X investigators on a trail of perversion that leads to the idyllic Cook Islands, where human sacrifice and cannibalism are more than dark chapters in history…