20/20 Edition - Headline 20th Anniversary Edition The classic novel from the 'master of our darkest dreams...and a literary juggler' The Times Two mutant creatures - both hideously changed from the animals they once were -escape from a secret government. No one who encounters them will ever be the same again. A lonely widower. A ruthless assassin. A beautiful woman. A government agent. Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four are inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond all human imagining.