A series of mysterious murders - in San Francisco, southern California, and on the East Coast. The method of reprisal against the victims is horrifying - they are all COMPLETELY BLEEDED. The work of a maniac who imagined himself as DRACULA? The acts of abnormal people, obsessed with “vampire decadence”? Or just a creepy game by a psychopath who decided to amaze the police with his “originality”? Detective Alex Cross does not yet know which of the three versions is correct. For now, one thing is clear to him - he will have to look for the killer in the secret, bizarre and cruel NIGHT WORLD of closed clubs and establishments, where there is NO ENTRANCE for outsiders.