Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel
universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories
"twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought
cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles
homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack,
WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and
was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event
threatened to awaken those memories.
When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are
reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life
madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and
Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his
inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a
disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been
unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking
dreams, if that is what they a
