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A specialist in geo-spatial intelligence and crime-mapping techniques, Patrick Bowers is trailing a ritualistic killer who patterns his gory handiwork after a medieval manuscript. Although Bowers can predict how and where the next victims will die, he isn't quite sure about the who or the when. Yet as disturbing evidence accumulates, one conclusion is clear: Bowers could become the centerpiece of the killer's next masterpiece--and time is running out.