From the outside, Robert Naysmith is a successful businessman. But for years he's been playing a deadly game. He doesn't choose his victims. Each is selected at random – the first person to make eye contact after he begins 'the game' will not have long to live. When the body of a young woman is found on Severn Beach, Detective Inspector Harland is assigned the case. It's only when he links it to an unsolved murder in Oxford that the police begin to guess at the awful scale of the crimes. But how do you find a killer who strikes without motive?
