John Katzenbach is an American writer, screenwriter, twice nominated for the Edgar Award, which recognizes the best authors of the detective genre; former court reporter in Miami. He now has 12 novels to his credit, five of which have been filmed. What would you do if your daughter became the object of harassment by a dangerous psychopath? How far can you go to protect her from harm?.. University professor Scott Freeman accidentally finds a note from an unknown admirer on his daughter - an ardent confession, assurances of eternal love... too persistent, perhaps. A balanced, rational person, and not at all a weakling, the professor is not inclined to make mountains out of molehills, and yet he cannot find room for anxiety. As it soon becomes clear, not in vain... A terrible story in its ordinariness about a single, but fatal mistake. A story of love and death.