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A gritty and violent thriller set in the sinister world of gangland London.

Synopsis

Theo Shirley is ready to move up. Now that he's sold enough drugs to support a girlfriend and a baby son, his mate Easy Dennison offers him a boost up the next rung of the ladder. As part of his initiation, Theo's taken out one night in a car without headlights. When the driver of a BMW flashes her lights at his car, he's ordered to shoot into her back seat, and his target, Sarah Ruston, runs her BMW into a bus stop.

The result is disaster for another unlikely family: DS Paul Hopwood and his girlfriend Helen Weeks, who's carrying a baby that may or may not be his. Relations have been cool between Paul and Helen ever since he found out about the fling she had at a particularly inopportune time. Now they're never going to warm up again. It's a sad story of random gang violence, but not, it seems, an uncommon one - except for a series of dark revelations.

First, the accident may have had less to do with drugs than an internal investigation by the police; second, there's a growing suspicion that the freak accident may not have been so accidental after all; third, somebody is evidently closing the case a step ahead of the authorities by killing the friends in Theo's gang, leaving him the odd man out in more ways than one.

In a city where violence can be random or meticulously planned, where teenage gangs clash with career criminals and where loyalty is paid for in blood, anything is possible. Secrets are uncovered as fast as bodies, and the story’s final twist is as breathtakingly surprising as they come.

About The Author

Mark Billingham is an award winning crime writer. He won the 2003 Sherlock Award as the creator of the 'Best Detective created by a British writer' and won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for best crime novel of the year.

Reviews and Press Quotes

Elle

“As pacy as ever, this confirms Billingham's status as the only crime writer capable of snapping at Rankin's heels.”

The Guardian

“Well-plotted, high quality stuff.”

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Content Advisory

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• Violence: Strong
• Sex: Moderate
• Language: Strong