They never saw their executioner. Because each victim had this in common: they were blind. Steve carella, a weary detective very much in love with his deaf wife, is stymied in a hunt that began when a vietnam veteran, hi...They never saw their executioner. Because each victim had this in common: they were blind. Steve carella, a weary detective very much in love with his deaf wife, is stymied in a hunt that began when a vietnam veteran, his sight taken in war, was found with his head nearly separated from his body.