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When a neon‑lit murder stuns the streets of London, Detective Inspector Anna Travis cannot dismiss the possibility that the elusive drug lord Alexander Fitzpatrick has resurfaced after a decade of silence. Her investigation pulls her into a tangled web of deceit, power, and desperate vengeance that traps everyone who crosses his path. With towering stakes and keen policecraft, the case thrusts Travis into the sharp, polished underbelly of the city’s most dangerous underworld.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Lynda La Plante
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