Tyler Pierce has just about everything an ex-bank robber could want. He has served his time for the one job he ever muffed - seven years in the Kansas pen. He has a new career as a small-town Missouri roofing contractor - and a new woman, the town librarian. Best of all, he has succeeded in pulling off his finest and final score, a Michigan heist that will provide for his declining years. Then he receives a message from his ex-wife in Florida: His daughter's corpse has been found in a remote section of a state park. All signs point to a serial slayer of young women, tagged by the press as the Sweetwater Killer. And Tyler Pierce heads south to do what the police have fallen painfully short of doing: find the mad murderer.
