Jane Doe is nothing, a shadow. Once a promising anthropologist, she's now hiding from an unimaginable horror. Miami police detective Jimmy Paz knows that Jane is connected to the ritualistic murders terrifying the city. Together, they must battle a psychopath whose shamanistic powers can alter reality itself.
One of the most terrifying thrillers since SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, TROPIC OF NIGHT pits 32-year-old anthropologist Jane Doe against her murderous ex-husband, Malcolm DeWitt, a shaman so skilled in the art of African witchcraft that he quickly becomes Miami's most feared serial killer.
After spending years researching shamanism and santaria in the heart of Africa, Jane is on the run; she faked her own suicide and is hiding in Miami under an assumed identity. Meanwhile, a Cuban-American police detective named Jimmy Paz is investigating a series of ritualistic murders. Though there are witnesses, they are able to recall almost nothing, as though their memory of that moment has been erased - as if a spell has been cast on each of them. The only thing they do remember is that the man closely resembled Miami police detective Jimmy Paz...
When Jane hears about the first of these murders, she realizes instantly that the black magic she'd witnessed in her previous life has returned to haunt her; and that, one way or another, fate has always had this moment in store for her. Jane Doe will play a crucial role in a cataclysmic battle between good and a kind of evil unimaginable to the Western mind.
E-book extra: Afterword by Michael Gruber
- ISBN10 0060531401
- ISBN13 9780060531409
- Publish Date 11 March 2003 (first published 4 March 2003)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 11 April 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperCollins
- Format eBook
- Pages 496
- Language English