The Gecko In The Corner (John Lee Quarrels)

When the father he never knew shows up at his house in the middle of the night, beaten and his body mutilated, with only a vague explanation of what happened to him, Somerton County Deputy John Lee Quarrels suspects there's more to the story than he is being told.

And when his father just as mysteriously disappears two days later, John Lee knows that there is trouble in store for him.