Thad Beaumont should be happy. For years he wrote highly successful violent thrillers under the name "George Stark," but now he has decided to start writing again using his own name and to "bury" the ominous pseudonym forever.

Now, however, he is a suspect in a series of brutal murders, which - as only he suspects - seem to have been committed by... the fictional author of his bestsellers.

One of the two must die.

But how can you kill something that was never born?