Dark Specter is an electrifying tale of interconnected lives: a hapless family man whose world is blasted apart by seemingly random events, police detectives in several cities investigating particularly cold-blooded and remarkably similar multiple murders, members of a cult whose initiation rite is an act of pure, rationalized malevolence. All of these lives - some by choice, some unwittingly - spin in desperate orbit around a man known to his followers as Los, the Eternal Prophet. At his compound on a remote island off the coast of Washington state, Los has reinterpreted the nature of good and evil, of God and man. He has proclaimed himself the center of a new universe, and has bestowed the right to life only on those selected for his insular community all others are expendable. But some of those others are closing in on the island and on the hallucinogenic working of Los's minds: a ground zero of psychosis and mayhem with the potential to leave each of them dramatically and permanently harmed.