When a seventeen-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath the case falls to DCI Karen Shields & her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime team. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesnt know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare & organised crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society from the back streets & high rises of Tottenham to the multi-million pound hideaways of the new international entrepreneurs. Several hundred miles away in Cornwall DI Trevor Cordon is stirred from his day-to-day duties by another tragic London fatality. Travelling to the capital determined to establish the cause of death & trace the deceaseds daughter
- an old acquaintance from Penzance
- Cordon becomes entangled in a lethally complex situation of his own. A situation much closer to Karens case than either of them can imagine.. . Brilliantly plotted & filled with rich subtle characters John Harveys latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer with his finger firmly on the pulse of twenty-first century crime.