Upfield and his Detective Inspector Bonaparte at their best in an eerie story of South Australia and a rugged coastline. He is on another manhunt- this time for a dangerous pervert- a rapist, murderer, thief, suspected of having sought refuge near his boyhood home where countless caves offered concealment in the cliffs. A story of high tension, provided chiefly by erratic extravagances of a violent sea -- and of the strange relationship between the hunted man and the girl who had always loved him. Holding.