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The novel begins while using discovery of a series of murders around the Payatas dumpsite in Quezon City. These discoveries imply that a serial monster is within the loose, and several are bring about believe and so. What is unusual about these killing cases is that all of the patients (young boys) are mutilated instead of just becoming killed. All their faces happen to be neatly taken off from their skulls and their minds and genitals removed from their particular bodies.
Father Emil, the parish clergyman of the place who understands one of the victim’s bodies at the outset of the initial chapter, supplies these details to Jesuit priests Gus Saenz and Jerome Lucero, a forensic pathologist and a clinical psychiatrist respectively.
The 2 scientists work on this case together with the Countrywide Bureau of Investigation (NBI), whose ineffectiveness becomes one of the main themes of the novel. Since the priests proceed together with the investigation, they can be forced to overcome several issues, particularly skepticism and mocking of Atty.
Ben Arcinas, the head of NBI’s investigating team. Figuring out the programs and intentions of a mentally disturbed fantastic, especially if your dog is very good at concealing that, is fairly challenging. The sleuths go through a few complicated changes in their quest to find fact and rights amidst the media-hungry personalities who don’t give very much attention to the case. The lovers also work with Joanna Bonifacio, an researched journalist who uses her skills to assemble information in the bureaucracy.
The two priests pursued the brought on of the crimes, confirming all the evidences remaining by the killer on the people especially the reality he kills with accurate and with symbols: this individual defaces his victims, and excises the genitals. They considered these signs that there is a sex conflict and a need to reduce the identification of the youngsters. Throughout the middle part of the new, the readers are given glimpses with the lives in the young subjects and how their families are affected by the murders.
The investigators obtain a chance to see the Payatas area and suspect that the killer is one of the people involved in the kids’ healthcare. They shortly learn about a mobile dental clinic which offers free dental services to poor kids in the area, plus the priests check out the center for dental records from the victims. Having seen the likeness between the shape of the signifies made around the victims’ skulls and the dentist’s instruments, the forensic researchers are sent hot on the suspect’s tracks. The later on part of the story focuses on the murderer’s life in the past. The eaders receive a qualifications about him that may also act as the explanation for his behaviour.
Since the priests continue while using investigation and identify the suspect to be Alex Carlos, the dental professional in the mobile clinic at the Payatas location. They go to his parents and learn that Carlos was sexually abused by simply his PE teacher if he was in secondary school. Although this individual has already slain his instructor using the same process, Carlos feels that this is insufficient. He goes on his killing spree, and as a way of releasing his vengeance, he eliminates boys in his era during the misuse.
In the last, and maybe most important scene of the novel, the killer is been shown to be hiding inside the mobile clinic after eliminating his last victim. The two Jesuit priests are the ones who begin the approach, and after much struggling, the suspect complies with his final demise. Alex Carlos is definitely shot by the NBI troops situated outside of the van. The novel ends with the two main heroes visiting the dentist’s grave. Younger priest Daddy Lucero can be shown pondering deeply regarding Carlos’ last words and feels remorseful, knowing that these did not plan to live the life he existed.
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