To kill a man is a hell of a thing. When you kill a man you stop a world. If you kill a man then you can damn well go to his funeral and look him in his cold dead face. Anyway that's the way Billy Harshburger feels about it as he drives to the funeral over at Buffalo, Oklahoma. If you're man enough to do it, then you should be man enough to witness the pain you have caused. It doesn't make any difference how worthless the man is nor does it make any difference how much he deserves to die, when he is gone he leaves behind people who love him and people who grieve for him. Even though Bill has started to college to get a degree in agriculture, he ends up working for the Tri-County Sheriffs Association and helping them catch a serial killer who has been on the loose for eight years. The murderer who specializes in the rape and death of young women. To him death is like a drug and like any addict, he needs more and more of it and closer and closer together. Follow Billy's exploits as he follows the serial killer into shadow land of a deranged mind while at the same time trying to balance his life with his school work and his family life.