What the hell could he say: "Your company's prospective client is some sort of mad-dog inhuman killer with a ray gun who consorts with giant spotted baboons"?

A Jeffery Deaver novel with no mad-dog serial killer and no state-of-the-art technology to track his moves?

"We'll turn you into a mad-dog killer yet, Colonel," Hal Briggs added with a wry smile.

Just another victim for a mad-dog killer.

"If I were a mad-dog killer, Zina would not have been alive to spread my name and description," Calhoun pointed out quietly.

The pretty little blond girl, played by Douglas J. Quattrock, turns out to be a mad-dog killer.

In any case he did not strike her as the kind of mad-dog killer who preoccupied the media these days.

Oh, yes, there is also a mad-dog killer to keep in jail and two murders to solve.

But there's more to Airth's agenda than turning out a sensational thriller about a mad-dog killer.

John Turturro plays Mike Battaglia as a wild-eyed, desperate weakling, a mad-dog killer who would be at home in any modern gangster saga.