Detective Chief Inspector Billy Mc Cartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The slaying carries all the hallmarks of a gangland hit
- a message from the underworld to snitches cops & rival gangs. One mile away a girl staggers into a run-down bar dazed & confused. The bars owner a career criminal called Shakespeare cannot get a word out of her. DCI Mc Cartney is all too well aware that the clock is ticking. The body was one Kalan Rozaki youngest brother of a notorious crime family
- except Kalan is no criminal. For almost a year his brothers have been under full-time Drug Squad surveillance as Mc Cartney slowly closed the net on their heroin trafficking. Mc Cartneys chief informant on the case is someone with insider knowledge of the Rozaki clans operation.. .their newly deceased baby brother Kalan. Mc Cartneys investigation into Kalans murder peels back layer after layer of a decades-long dynasty of drug smuggling. Each revelation plunges Mc Cartney back into the dark heart of an unsolved drug crime that weighs heavy on his soul. He wants to catch the Rozakis
- badly
- but he wants the shadowy men behind their drug empire even more. The closer Mc Cartney gets to Kalans killer the closer he comes to facing down a lifetimes torment.