A dark and deeply moving psychological tale about a serial killer with the brain of a genius and a heart of gold 'He's responsible for the deaths of many people. But everything I've learned about him makes me believe he's fundamentally a good person. Sounds crazy doesn't it? How can he be a good person? He's a serial killer' For seventeen years the FBI have been hunting down a killer. For seventeen years he has rid America of its scum. To many he doesn't even exist; he is just a ghost. They call him Mr Candid. And he is extremely dangerous. Brought into a life of privilege and wealth on America's East Coast, Charlie Kane was a child prodigy. Reading the New York Times at the age of three, a mathematical genius at thirteen, this gentle, handsome boy went to Harvard University where he found the love of his life and a place in the world. Until one Thanksgiving, seventeen years ago, when Charlie and the entire Kane family all but vanished.