Detective-Sergeant Kate Burnham isn&t making any friends in the Washington DC Police Department That makes her the perfect scapegoat when a routine homicide investigation threatens to blow open a criminal conspiracy reaching to the upper echelons of the DC power elite Either Kate makes it go away or they make her go away Cop or criminal power is all about control applied top-down from the penthouse elite to the hustlers on the street But what happens when the street pushes back? A political crime thriller from Andy Diggle Angela Cruickshank & Andrea Mutti! Meet the Author Andy Diggle&s comics career began somewhat inauspiciously running the comics section of the Sherratt & Hughes bookshop in Croydon His university dissertation on comics technique led to him teaching an undergraduate course on Graphic Narrative the following year He became the editor of seminal British sci-fi comic 2000 AD in the year 2000 before moving on to become a full-time writer