Leonard Land is a seven-foot-tall, completely hairless computer genius, wired to the cyberpunk subculture of Death Metal and Satan worship. He is also a twisted, multipersonality maniac who is systematically murdering women. When he is The Rat, he is smart and cunning, brilliantly mapping out his next kill and using his knowledge of the Internet to carry out his plans; when he becomes The Wind Minstrel, he is God and the Devil. The Rat only covets women; The Wind Minstrel possesses them.

Hot on Land's trail is a formidable, if unlikely, trio of heroes: John Lockwood -- a renegade U.S. Customs agent who never met a rule he didn't break or a regulation he didn't violate; Karen "Awesome" Dawson -- a beautiful and brainy forensic psychologist who never met a challenge she couldn't overcome; and Malavida Chacone, a street-wise master hacker who never met a computer program he couldn't crack.

Once Land discovers that Lockwood, Dawson and Chacone have infiltrated his clandestine programs, he fights back mercilessly, using his computer genius to manipulate their lives and ensure their deaths. As they track the killer to the Florida swamps, their pursuit turns into a heart pounding race against time. The hunters are now the hunted, and they must stop Land before he claims... The Final Victim.