Jimmy Harris lost his eyesight in Vietnam. But it was on a cold city street that he lost his life. When 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Meyer interview Jimmy's blind wife, she doesn't tell them much. And by the next morning, she isn't talking at all--she's been murdered. The only clue the cops have is a nightmare Jimmy shared with an army psychiatrist 10 years earlier--a nightmare that will lead to the darkest recesses of a killer's mind.