Dear Diary,I am a star. I've finally found the yellow brick road to fame. I could teach anyone. As long as they are willing to die for it.---------------------A bomb goes off in Buffalo, N.Y. That same day FBI agent, Daryll Peltier, receives the first of many correspondences from a serial killer calling themselves, Sam-I-Am.The gruesome torture and murders of the killer's victims are filmed and broadcast on live television. Creating a puzzling masterpiece of blood and torture which the FBI can't unravel.Daryll and her partner, Frank Zepano, began a hunt for the killer across the continental United States and into the Caribbean. The hunt involves cryptic messages, a strange and powerful cult, an unstoppable nano virus, the International Space Station, a trailer park psychic, a tabloid newspaper journalist, a computer hacker, the Oscars...and a body count of one victim per state.