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The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of
a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn't believe the police
arrested the right man; he discovers this is the third incident in the area in
the recent past with victims young, blond, pretty, and small for their age. So
he buys an old gas station in the mountains near the crimes in order to
search for a tall man who drives a black station wagon, gives toy porcupines
as gifts, and calls himself the wizard: clues from a drawing by the dead girl.
Jerry's solitary life gives way to friendship with a woman and her small,
blond daughter. Has Jerry neglected something that may prove fatal?