SYNOPSIS:

GINGER BAKER, a local college student, is the sole survivor of a serial torturer, rapist, and killer, known only as THE PAINMASTER. As she and several other witnesses are interrogated by local police, a complete picture of the Painmaster's underlying plan slowly comes into focus.The Painmaster broadcasts sadistic sexual assaults, torture, and murders across the Internet to a select group of monthly subscribers who believe they are simply watching BDSM porn. They are either too jaded or too naive to realize that what they are watching is real.But cybercrimes detectives RON NELSON and VALERIE WAHL are hot on the Painmaster’s cybertrail. They are thwarted at every turn by the brilliant killer, who is as skilled at hiding all electronic trails as at killing innocent people. Time is running out. Another brutal broadcast awaits.And the Painmaster is ready for his close-up.