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Publisher Description
A gripping police procedural featuring Detective Chief Superintendent Henry Christie
Responding to a desperate phone call, Henry Christie stumbles across a gangland-style execution in progress – and only just escapes with his own life. One of the murder victims is a successful local jeweller, but the motive for his brutal killing remains unclear.
Meanwhile, ex-cop Steve Flynn is unwittingly sucked into a deadly game of kidnap, torture and murder. Then, when a dangerous figure from his past emerges, Flynn finds himself slap-bang in the middle of a bloodsoaked race between rival factions for a fortune worth millions.
As Henry pieces the evidence together, he starts to unravel links that ultimately pit himself and Flynn against cold-blooded killers who will stop at nothing to achieve their aims – including murdering a cop and his reluctant sidekick.
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Early in Oldham's well-crafted 21st Henry Christie novel (after Judgment Call), the savvy Blackpool veteran arrives at the house of diamond merchant Percy Astley-Barnes just after a hit man fatally shot Percy and his girlfriend, Lotte Bowers. The man escapes after firing at Henry, who must figure out a motive for the gangland-style execution. Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico, Steve Flynn, a former Lancashire cop turned fishing-boat captain, becomes a suspect in another double killing. Oldham blends these two stories, which converge on the sinister Costain clan. Scott Costain's illicit activities in Puerto Rico eventually lead Henry to patriarch Liam Costain in Blackpool. The core of the story is strong enough on its own, but Oldham adds some nifty twists as Flynn fights to get clear of dangerous thugs and Christie hunts a killer who is also hunting him. Oldham leavens the action with heart and humor.
