The only thing worse than losing control is having control... Tom Sinclair is a man of violence, a thug who beats up suspected paedophiles and burns down their houses. Doctor Kelly Orman is a woman of science, a psychologist who regards even her own colleagues as hopelessly lacking in detachment. Tom helps Kelly to write a scholarly textbook about paedophiles and their victims, a book that she hopes will sweep away the knee-jerk hysterics and slavering headlines in favour of detachment and reason. But as her research deepens and long-buried memories of her own childhood start to resurface, can she keep the evil that men do at arm's length? Can she really hunt monsters without becoming a monster herself? Of course she can. She is rational. She won't let emotion affect her judgement. She won't.