Heading a sophisticated black ops branch, Steve Dark applies methods that require the suppression of his own personality and off-the-record statuses in order to bring justice to a horrific serial murderer who has tortured dozens of victims throughout the world. By the creator of CSI. Heading a sophisticated black ops branch, Steve Dark applies methods that require the suppression of his own personality and off-the-record statuses in order to bring justice to a horrific serial murderer who has tortured dozens of victims throughout theworld. Rogue serial-killer hunter Steve Dark heads a highly secret and incredibly skilled black ops element within the U.S. government, which is tasked with finding and bringing to justice the most brutal and horrific murderers in the world--the Level 26 killers. In his first case, Dark tracks down the killer known as Sqweegel, a psychopath who has shot, raped, maimed, poisoned, burned, strangled, and tortured upwards of fifty people in six countries over a span of more than twenty years. It is well known among law enforcement personnel that murderers can be categorized on a scale of twenty-five levels of evil, from the naive opportunists starting out at Level 1 to the organized, premeditated torture-murderers who inhabit Level 25.What almost no one knows - except for the elite unnamed investigations group assigned to hunt down the worlds most dangerous killers, a group of men and women accounted for in no official ledger, headed by the brilliant but reluctant operative Steve Dark - is that a new category of killer is in the process of being defined.Only one man belongs to this group. His targets: Anyone. His methods: Unlimited. His alias: Sqweegel. His classification: Level 26.