Fire Baby

Mike Hennessy has worked the streets of Portland for more than 20 years; first as a beat cop and more recently as a Lieutenant Detective. He has been honored many times for his bravery, often taking risks that most would never consider and always putting his job first, doing whatever it takes to close cases and bring bad guys to justice.
But Mike is more than just good at his job; he is excellent at it. Because unknown to anyone else, Mike possesses what he believes to be a very unique talent; an ability that lets him literally get inside the heads of his suspects; an ability that with the passage of time and experience, Mike has come to know as a dangerous and potentially deadly curse.
When Mike is assigned the headline grabbing psycho-serial murder case in which more than 20 horribly mutilated bodies, all young, all female, all blonde hair and blue eyed, have already been discovered along the banks of the Columbia River Basin from Portland east to Pendleton, the suspect whose head he gets inside doesn’t play nice. And it isn’t long before Mike discovers that the killer is not only aware of his ethereal presence each time he enters into the sociopath’s subconscious thoughts, but the psychotic killer is also able to interlope back into Mike’s subconscious whenever Mike lets his guard down; such as when he dozes off or sleeps; something Mike has never experienced in all of his other cases since first discovering this unique ability. And it’s getting worse as he can no longer slip into the evil being’s head undetected. And Mike is losing a lot of sleep lately. At least, this is what Mike would have you believe.