Publisher's Synopsis
A compelling, fast paced, action packed thriller with enough tension and intrigue to keep you gripped to the last page."When the powerful and corrupt destroy lives and neighbourhoods, those fighting back can have no rules."What starts in post war Hamburg grows into corruption reaching up into the highest levels of society in drug damned London, 50 years later. Can an unlikely group stop the mob dead in their tracks?
In Nineties London, huge amounts of dirty drug cash lay wharehoused by criminals in lofts and cellars. Then a banker with a habit, shows the way, setting up a laundering operation that cleans the money and funds Development in the City. The resultant goldrush sees corruption reach into the heart of the Capital's Institutions. Starmer had pumped ill-gotten gains into property development but now he's bored. When the woman he'd loved asks for his help with an off the books police investigation into corruption, he goes back to her, and what he does best. Hogan realises there aren't many job opportunities for disgraced ex cops. So he knows that this is his one shot at redemption. And he wasn't too bothered by the odds.; he'd been shot at by professionals. Donovan, struggling as a reporter on a local paper, knows there's a big story buried behind layers of corporate corruption and, the heavier the threats the more determined she became to write it. Billy Sylvester learnt about life, love, and organised crime in post war, bombed out, Hamburg. And those experiences shaped him. In peacetime he operated semi legitimately in a world where he was both respected and feared. But he'd not forgotten the woman he'd lost, or the man who'd stolen her.
