A chance meeting in one of the nightclubs in Los Angeles fatally connects the “steel agent” of the FBI, Grant Kyler, and a young widow, the unpredictable Holly Prescott. They seek oblivion in the slow dance of passion, but a hellish cacophony of betrayal and crime bursts into this hidden world. “The Path to Fear” is the title of the novel by the gifted but mired in vices Casey Prescott, with whom the most terrible period in Holly’s life is associated. Grant follows the path of proud loneliness and all-consuming revenge against the “eminence grise” of the criminal world towards his goal. But through the veil of despair, betrayal and hatred, a completely different path is sometimes revealed.