It’s the hottest summer ever in Chicago history, and homicide detective Donnie Lynch is trying to keep his cool as his personal life crumbles and he searches for an elusive fiend who has slaughtered a homicide witness … and who continues to do much worse.

Chicago Outfit boss, Tico “The Meatgrinder” Tortellio, has emerged from the insulated cocoon within his mob world, yearning to get his hands dirty. Tortellio’s grisly mission: to destroy the fiend who vitiated his comatose daughter.

The fiend who is wanted by good and bad is Derek Hoffman, a steroid-abusing-sociopath whose monstrous body and mind have further been grotesquely transformed by an experimental ED-arousal-drug.

Overdosing on the lab-made pills, Hoffman has become a raging beast, high on lust and blood—a pharmaceutically-created monster, he roams the blistering city, committing unspeakable acts and leaving terror and carnage in his wake.

Soon the race is on as both Lynch and Tortellio hunt for Hoffman, the two foes bent on finding Hoffman first to deliver their own brand of justice.

But who can take Hoffman down if they DO find him?

Hoffman is a hulking monster who won’t be taken down easily … he’s hardwired to defile and destroy anything that moves with his big, bare hands. Can anyone subdue this uncontrollable man-beast whose rabid fury and sexual compulsions are in overdrive?

Justice, revenge, and the horrors of Big Pharma are the stakes in WRETCH.