Pursuit

A Louisville restaurant is found after closing with thirteen people dead inside. Detectives, baffled by the brutal and seemingly random violence, bring in Daniel Millikan, a criminology professor, to build a profile of the killer. Millikan concludes that the perpetrator is not a psychopath but a hired killer, skilled and utterly without emotion, and he sees the threat as too dangerous to leave free among ordinary families.

With the police investigation stalled, Millikan makes an unconventional choice. He turns to Roy Prescott, a specialist in tracking murderers using methods that law enforcement cannot or will not employ. The novel follows a long pursuit across the United States, in which the hunter and the killer both know that only one of them will survive.