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If he is to catch the men responsible and end a lifetime’s torment, he must act fast…  Praise for the DCI Billy McCartney series:  `Pace and tension in spades…’  Irish Times  `Ferociously compelling’  Reader’s Digest  `Violent and earthy, reflecting its inner-city locale. And did I mention the killer ending? Marvellous’ Raven Crime Reads  `A punched-in-the-solar-plexus feeling occurs as this novel’s final, gobsmacking twist is revealed. Without a doubt my crime novel of the year’  CrimeFictionLover  `The final few paragraphs are as magnificent as they are unexpected. 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One mile away, a girl staggers into a run-down bar, dazed and confused. The bar’s owner, a career criminal called Shakespeare, cannot get a word out of her.   DCI McCartney 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 McCartney slowly closed the net on their heroin trafficking. McCartney’s chief informant on the case is someone with insider knowledge of the Rozaki clan’s operation...their newly deceased baby brother, Kalan.  McCartney’s investigation into Kalan’s murder peels back layer after layer of a decades-long dynasty of drug smuggling. Each revelation plunges McCartney 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. 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Their objective: to infiltrate the Liverpool-based drug gang responsible for a wave of ecstasy-related deaths. But their stakeout takes both Mac and Millie to the heart of a dark empire whose tentacles stretch from Ireland to Morocco, and whose activities include industrial-scale drug production – and terrorism. They’re close to their big bust when Millie is abducted by the gang, and killed. McCartney never quite recovers from it.  The waif who knocks on Mac’s door twenty-four years later has escaped from those same captors; a dynasty of international dope dealers based high in the Moroccan Rif. What she tells McCartney blasts his apathy away, and sends him on a mission that goes far beyond law and order. 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The shivering waif who knocks on Mac’s door has escaped from the same captors and he is soon on a mission that goes far beyond law and order. This is McCartney’s chance for redemption…  Praise for the DCI Billy McCartney series:  `Pace and tension in spades…’ Irish Times  `Ferociously compelling’ Reader’s Digest  `Violent and earthy, reflecting its inner-city locale. And did I mention the killer ending? Marvellous’ Raven Crime Reads  `A punched-in-the-solar-plexus feeling occurs as this novel’s final, gobsmacking twist is revealed. Without a doubt my crime novel of the year’  CrimeFictionLover  `The final few paragraphs are as magnificent as they are unexpected. 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