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Two murders and two suicides in one day. It was enough to overwhelm the Met - and they could throw hundreds at it. For Superintendent Blair and his small team in the quiet market town of St Neives, it was enough to stretch resources and nerves to the limit. And then a young boy was posted missing! Were the cases related and if so, how and why Gradually as the facts emerged, the shadow of something evil began to materialise - an evil stalking the streets, an evil with no face, no apparent motive, but capable of the most horrible and cruel outrages. There was a bomber on the loose.