As Anton spent his afternoon planning his night-time sojourn, at the headquarters of the Sureté a meeting took place between the Deputy Commissioner of the Paris police and Doctor Henri de la Croix, a respected expert in the field of serial killer profiling. Between them, they hoped to identify something, anything, which might help the police in their search for the killer whose crimes continued to terrorise the population of the city. They had met twice before as the killings had escalated, but this third meeting was thought necessary due to the increasing severity of the injuries being inflicted on the victims, and also in order to try to relieve the continued pressure being exerted on the investigators from every angle of society. The police, anxious to show that they were doing somethi
