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"James Whitmore is the most dangerous serial killer the American people have never heard of." - excerpt from the classified FBI Basilisk Files. All his life people around him had a habit of dying in unexplained circumstances. His parents, friends, and enemies; were all murdered. Fear, suspicion, and doubt surrounded him from his childhood until three unexplained deaths closely linked to him at his high school resulted in a riotous mob nearly burning the town to ash to get to him. Deemed too dangerous for trial because of his suspected ability to kill, James has spent the last ten years imprisoned by a government that denied him due process for the safety of the American people. To the few who admit to knowing him, James is but a faded memory.Until that same government comes with a proposition: Freedom in exchange for using his abilities for them.Forgotten, alone, and bitter, James finds himself a pawn in a game where he's nearly powerless. As a stipulation of his freedom, James must reveal how he killed those from his past. Pressed by the intelligent and seductive Agent Murphy, the spokeswoman for the shadowy government agency known only as "Management", James must find a way to keep his secrets from those who wish to uncover them for their profit while at the same time negotiating what he really wants: his own version of freedom. Because James knows he would never be free if they knew what he was.A man with the power of the mythological Basilisk to sever the life of any he lays eyes upon.