A serial killer with the precision of a man of medicine is dubbed "The Surgeon" by Boston newspapers. The only clue police have is the two-year-old attack on Dr. Catherine Cordell, who killed her assailant. Now, this new killer is re-creating, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's own ordeal. And with every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home.