Cleansing — Roy A. Teel Jr.

"Oh dear God! What have they done?" Back Cover: In a remote outcropping in the Santa Monica Mountains, four-month-old Emily Swan is found murdered. FBI Special Agent John Swenson and LA County Sheriff Jim O'Brian have been called to investigate her murder. As their work continues, they discover that a small religious sect, founded decades earlier by an infamous serial killer, seems to have reappeared in the Los Angeles area. Even though he has been imprisoned for nearly four decades, his influence has gained a following with a group apparently attempting to fulfill a second coming according to Christian mythology. As Swenson and O'Brian sort through each case, a frightening secret is uncovered ... one only the Iron Eagle can expose. Inside Flap: Emily Swan has been abducted from her crib and murdered in the Santa Monica Mountains. On a rock outcropping near her remains, the words of Psalm 29 are etched with great care into the outside wall of a makeshift altar - the words, themselves, a sign that this ritualistic murder is rooted in something evil. As Sheriff Jim O'Brian and FBI Special Agent John Swenson search for the killer, they realize this new murder has a connection to the past - a connection to a serial killer. From crime scene to crime scene, O'Brian and Swenson discover biblical passages, and the Iron Eagle works to dissect the information gleaned. What is uncovered is a plot so diabolical that even the Eagle feels powerless to stop it.