The house was quiet while they ate. Milton didn't like distractions when he was at the table, so there was no annoying, midday nonsense from the radio or television and very little conversation in the dining room.

“What time would you like to have supper？” Peggy Davis asked in a low tone. Sometimes it seemed that all they ever talked about were the schedules and contents of their meals.

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The Madison Facial and Cranial Surgery Center is famous throughout the world for helping victims of birth defects and traumatic injuries. The world doesn't know, however, that the center does very special work for the government as well--providing new faces, new identities, and new personalities for select patients, creating perfect assassins for clandestine "wet work."

When butchered bodies begin turning up on the other side of the country, FBI agent Russell Montgomery immediately recognizes the handiwork of vicious serial killer Calvin Peter Bryant, known as the Prince of Darkness. But that's impossible--Bryant is dead, shot and killed by Montgomery himself. Can the Prince of Darkness somehow still be alive and killing？ The only way Montgomery can find out is by following the trail of victims--a trail that seems to lead right to the Madison Center.