An ancient war. A new battleground.The border between the United States and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled through it, anything at all.But when individuals linked to a group of ex-soldiers begin to die, private investigator Charlie Parker uncovers the true horror of what these men have been carrying across the border.Now other forces have been drawn to the cargo and the evil it contains - and to combat them, Parker must seek help from one of the few beings, in this world or the next, of whom he is truly afraid . . . '[A] creepy thriller from a modern master'Daily Mirror'In Herod . . . he may have created his creepiest villain yet'Sun