From the back cover: "From out of the depths of hell, won't someone STOP me?" --- The Ripper London, 1982: A city gripped by a horror it had not known for a century, since Jack the Ripper stalked its streets. One by one the hideously butchered corpses were found. Day by day the police had less and less hope of stemming the torrent of blood. All that drew a down-on-his-luck detective named Jack Shepherd into the case was the pay offered by the distraught parents of a slain girl. But from his first step into a labyrinth of human secrets and shameful guilts, love at its most beautiful and sex at its ugliest, maddening mystery and mind-boggling revelations, there was no turning back until he discovered the shattering truth about--THE RIPPER!