"Sergeant Nick Chester is in hiding after an undercover job gone wrong. If the rivers aren't flooded and the land hasn't slipped, the Marlborough Sounds can be paradise. Unless a ruthless man with a grudge is coming for you, in which case remote beauty has its own kind of danger. While Nick waits for his past to catch up with him, he and his colleague Constable Latifa Rapata spend their days patrolling for speeding motorists and trigger-happy hunters. But there's a predator at large, snatching children off the streets and it's not long before the press give him a name - the Pied Piper . [a] story about being the hunter and the hunted, and about what happens when evil takes hold of a small town"--Back cover.