Lucy Kincaid has not even started studying at the FBI Academy, but she is already being actively involved in operational work as an analytical psychologist. And it’s not surprising - despite her youth, Lucy has extensive experience in developing psychological portraits of the most dangerous maniacal killers. A new case also required her participation. A young woman was strangled to death in a Washington park. The piquancy was that until recently the murdered woman was the mistress of one of the capital’s prominent politicians, and she died immediately after photographs of their “fun” were posted on the Internet. However, the police soon discovered the bodies of several child prostitutes, and evidence showed that the killer was the same person. What is this – the madness of another maniac? Or a skillful disguise of a contract killing? Lucy has to answer this difficult question...