Call him Max. But don't shake his hand. Don't get too close at all. Because Max isn't just Max. He's a lot of people, a twisted collection of personalities struggling to find a way out. One of these personalities is vicious. Insatiable. A man with a talent for the blade and a hunger for women with strawberry blond hair.

Max's latest quarry, Dr. Irene Cogan, is about to learn two things firsthand: what makes Max tick, and what happened to...

THE GIRLS HE ADORED