Jugular

Jack is straight off the plane He has few friends and no money In desperation he accepts an apartment formerly housed by the main suspect in a serial murder case John Ellroy Plagued by insomnia Jack broods in the apartment and wanders the innercity streets of Melbourne His loneliness leads him into a friendship with a teenage addict Janie and into a bizarre obsession with Ellroy Jack struggles to retain his sanity as his world spirals into madness and violence