The maximum number of pieces removed corresponds to the number of letters in the mystery word that has been carefully chosen for that particular victim. Each wrong or unintelligible answer results in the amputation of a body part. Each victim is asked to guess a word chosen for them by Danco, a description of a grievous offense against him, for which the victim is to atone. Dexter looks forward to teaching them to control their 'Dark Passengers' as his foster father, Harry, had taught Dexter to control his.ĭexter learns that Danco's murder ritual includes a word game resembling hangman. While trying to bond with Rita's children, Astor and Cody, he discovers that they're showing the same signs of sociopathy that he did at their age. Amidst all the chaos, Dexter finds himself accidentally engaged to his girlfriend Rita Bennett. Danco has come to Miami to take revenge on his former comrades, drugging his victims with painkillers and psychotropics, and over episodes lasting several days or even weeks, surgically removing various body parts.ĭexter is drawn into the case when Danco abducts his sister Deborah's new boyfriend, Detective Kyle Chutsky. When an unknown man is found bizarrely mutilated, Doakes recognizes the work of 'Doctor Danco', a torturer who served with Doakes in the Special Forces during the Salvadoran Civil War.

This makes it impossible for Dexter to investigate (and perhaps kill) someone that he suspects of complicity in the sexual abuse and murder of young boys. Albert Doakes, a Homicide detective, has grown suspicious of Dexter and obsessively tails him in his free time. Dearly Devoted Dexter is a 2005 crime/ horror novel by Jeff Lindsay, the second in his series about psychopathic vigilante Dexter Morgan, which has been adapted into a television series.

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