ONE GIRL DEAD. MORE WILL FOLLOW. Her small body hangs from a dockside crane in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, scarred beyond all recognition. Local police close the case within days - just another death in Haiti's gang violence epidemic. But to Girl Zero, something stands a vicious bite mark on the victim's left forearm. Three years ago, Zero was imprisoned by 'The Engineer', a brilliant and twisted torturer of children. She barely escaped death on his iron altar, but bit his forearm in the process - a mark he swore to inflict on every child he killed. Now he's begun. But this is Haiti, crime capital of the world. A failed state. An ungoverned space. A land of black magic and death. The perfect place for the Engineer to build the bloodiest altar imaginable. Zero means to sacrifice him on it - if she can survive that long... He drew first blood. She'll bleed him dry.