London Bridges Study Guide

The novel opens in Salvador, Brazil with Geoffrey Shafer, the psychopathic killer better known as the Weasel, enjoying his six-bedroom villa on the beach. He has been up to his old tricks, hunting and killing prostitutes on the dark, narrow streets of the old city - and no one seems to care. At two in the morning he returns to his villa with a dark young beauty named Maria. He notices movement in the bushes. Suddenly three men attack him and beat him unconscious. After telling Maria she did a good job by bringing him to them, they shoot her dead. (read more)