A Cold Mind

Houston sprawls in the sun like a woman ready for the richest comer. Past the plush condos of expatriate Brazilian to the city's rotting wharves, wealthy Police Detective Stuart Haydon cruises in his Jaguar—hunting a killer.

The homicides chill Haydon's blood. Each a high-priced hooker, found in the bayous, in the back streets, in luxury apartments. Each confronted in an agonized death climax that defies medical analysis.

Mesmerized by the grisly murders, Haydon is sucked into the city's sexual underbelly—into the secret slave trade in young girls from Rio's slums groomed and sold to jet-set South Americans. Obsessed, he pits himself against the psychopath, in a trap as vicious, as cunning, as lethal as… A COLD MIND