The dismembered corpse of a sixteen-year-old girl is found at the Neuroscience Research Institute. Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico is sure that the killer is an employee of the institute, since a stranger cannot enter the building. But which of the prominent scientists committed this monstrous crime? Almost everyone can be suspected, and yet the mysterious killer, whom the ubiquitous press calls the Phantom, has already found his next victim. Delmonico begins an investigation and very soon comes to the conclusion: the only way to catch the maniac is to understand how these murders are connected with a terrible crime committed thirty years ago back...(Back cover)A novel that will leave the reader intellectually and emotionally shocked!Publishers WeeklyThere is no genre in which Colleen McCullough cannot become a star, and this novel is the best proof of that!Daily Telegraph