(Second Edition) Houston Private Investigator Ted Mitchell hires a Vietnamese secretary with a face disfigured by Dr. Anh-Dung Nguyen, a wealthy plastic surgeon who has built an international practice on westernizing Asian women. Not everyone benefits under his scalpel. Ted is determined to put an end to the grotesquery when he discovers a connection between the good doctor and the murder of his own father many years before. Finally ready to end the not knowing, Ted pursues the long hidden truth to the end of the line in THE CUTTER.