[Casmirc 02] • The Piper

Jackson Byrne feels wasted. He’s exhausted from his sleepless nights, haggard

from trekking his traumatized wife to her therapy sessions, and sick of

dragging himself to a Maryland state prison to fulfill his debt to an insane

child killer.

Suddenly he receives a call to pull him away from this stagnation and toward a

new unholy mess.

In Boston an assailant immobilized a sleep-deprived young mother, blinded her

with a black hood, and stole her infant son. When a second abduction occurs in

an identical fashion, the media dubs this terrifying perpetrator “The Piper”

after the Pied Piper of Northern European folk legend.

Stumped by these mysterious kidnappings—with no witnesses, no leads, no

ransom, and no sign of the missing babies—local authorities reach out to

Special Agent Jackson Byrne and his FBI team specializing in child abduction.

As Jack becomes embroiled in the child abduction case, he tries to prepare

himself and his anxiety-riddled family for the trial of his most

sensationalized criminal ever, the Playground Predator.

Through themes of loss and grief, retribution and repentance, The Piper

follows both the Playground Predator trial and the Piper’s infant abductions

as each story fervently races to its unforgettable climax.