DNA - he loved it. The exact science - no ambiguity, no anonymity and no hiding place - an indelible ID for each and every individual upon the planet.

There would be no hiding place for this raping, murdering beast when the database search finished … This time he had made a mistake, they all do sooner or later – a hair, some blood, some semen… With this monster it was saliva. A conscientious forensics officer had found some drool upon the latest victims face.

He wiped the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand as the excitement and anticipation mounted.

A match! Got him! But with the result came mortifying terror, for as he read his own name on the screen, so all those vague, fragmented and distant nightmares that he’d suffered gathered vivid clarity as they came rushing out of their deep subconscious hiding place into his conscious memory.