Six decades after the murder of his true love, Kennedy James is stilldesperate to find her killer. Even the strange power that has made himthe most effective contract killer in history has not helped to bringhim this satisfaction. Now, at eighty years old, a congenital heartdefect troubling him more than ever before, time is no longer on hisside. When, at last, new information suddenly gives him hope, is hestrong enough to see it through? And why does the little neighbor girlknow so much?