A Simple Act of Violence

Washington has a new menace... a serial killer whose victims don't exist...

Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about
serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they
gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few
people that could ignore it.

Detective Robert Miller is assigned to the case, and rapidly uncover a
complication. The victims do not officially exist. Their personal details do
not register on any known systems. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing
facts, he starts to face truths so far-removed from his own reality that he
begins to fear for his life.