内容简介：
Manhattan Detective Thomas Francis Whelan, a.k.a. "the Jesuit," is a veteran NYPD police detective who spends a good amount of his free time in prayer, most often at St. Patrick's Cathedral. He is an unassuming man who does his best to maintain a state of grace. His reward for this prayerful diligence comes in the form of unusual insights, psychic in nature, that tend to arrive in obscure yet inescapable patterns of thought. It is a gift he has learned not to ignore. In this story of suspense, the Jesuit is confronted with several particularly brutal murders taking place in Central Park. The newspapers have already dubbed them, "The Dismemberment Murders." Unfortunately for the Jesuit, his exceptional gift never seems to come without a price, never fails to exact its toll. Too often, he is unsure if it even flows from the Spirit at all-or if his more human nature might be getting in the way, obscuring the truth. In this novel of tempo and pace, his deadly dance may ultimately become only too mortal an experience for the Jesuit.