The Scarecrow

THE POET was the last word in evil for LA Times crime reporter Jack McEvoy... until he met The Scarecrow.

McEvoy encountered The Poet, and nearly lost his life for the pleasure, when he was a rookie reporter. Now, a “victim of the internet”, he is serving two weeks’ notice and training in his ambitious replacement who is a true child of the communications revolution, and also willing to work for a pittance.

However, Angela Cook’s zeal for success gets the better of her when the reporters probe the imprisonment of a young drug dealer for killing a showgirl. McEvoy finds a link between this killing and the horrific killing of a stripper in another state.