Two Hangmen One Scaffold Book II. In The Hangman's Shadow

When a correlation emerges between a prophecy and a police investigation and a kidnapper maintains his presence at a crime scene a woman dreads the passage of time. She cannot understand why a man set an innocent teenager on fire and kidnapped her son. The kidnapped boy's father knows when two warring hangmen stand on the same scaffold one must bow to the other or die. Into the fray comes a game ranger an ex-decathlete expert at tracking man-eating crocodiles. However a Senator twice his age counting her fertility days desperately wants him in bed. She isn't aware her sweetheart is in the belly of a world no criminologist can understand. As mayhem takes centre-stage in a community suffering the brunt of a veiled matrix of calamities is the ranger further bait a weapon or a sacrificial ram between crouching outlaws?