Progeny of the Adder

Homicide detective Harry Picard had seen a lot of violent deaths... but never like this. Three bodies—blonde, female, strangely emaciated—were found in the Potomac River with their throats brutally slashed. Each had been seen in the company of a huge, hulking man dressed in black. Picard's investigation catapulted him into a roiling morass of passion, sexual intrigue, violence, and primordial fear... as he faced an enemy as powerful, and as horrifying, as man's oldest superstitions!