the recovery circuit walked from outside
making the rounds of all Substance-Difficulty-Rehabilitation facilities in hospitals, psychiatric institutions, and demi-maisons within a 25-km. radius
Context
The hunt for the veiled performer traces, from the predator's side, the exact geography of the recovery world — every detox, ward, and halfway house inside a 25-km ring, canvassed door to door. The book quietly lays the addict and the test-subject over each other: to find the woman they need, the killers work the same institutional circuit the disease deposits its casualties on.