Fashion photographer Laura is gaining fame by shooting her exclusive models, full of erotic charge, on the streets of the metropolis, where violence and crime reign.
Suddenly, under strange circumstances, several of Laura's friends are killed. He is in a panic, because he experiences every murder in his consciousness, like the eye of a camera.
The novel is dark, passionate, and full of Grey's epic descriptions of mountains and storms. It is considered one of his most tense and tragic works; it has been adapted for film four times (most famously in 1930 with Jack Holt and Fay Wray and in 1940 wi