Progeny of the Adder – Whitten, Leslie H.

Homicide detective Harry Picard had seen a lot of violent deaths … but never like this. Three bodies — blonde, female, strangely emaciated — were found in the Potomac River with their throats brutally slashed. Each had been seen in the company of a huge, hulking man dressed in black. Picard’s investigation catapulted him into a roiling morass of passion, sexual intrigue, violence, and primordial fear … as he faced an enemy as powerful, and as horrifying, as man’s oldest superstitions!