City of Sins

The pulse-pounding thriller featuring FBI agent Franco Patrese, in New Orleans on the hunt for a warped serial killer as Hurricane Katrina threatens the city.

Franco Patrese is intrigued when the attractive PA to New Orleans’ richest man requests a clandestine meeting. She has information regarding an unthinkable conspiracy, and will trust no-one else.

The next day she’s dead – the victim of a bizarre ritual murder – and Patrese finds himself drawn into the murkiest of underworlds, piecing together connections between the city’s seediest players and her top officials.

Only two certainties remain – devastating secrets are hidden in these cesspools of corruption and crime, and some people will do anything to keep them that way.

And all the while, the city’s apocalypse looms. Her name is Katrina, and she’s taking aim…

Reviews
‘Stunning. A “Chinatown” for the 21st century’ – Charles Cumming, New York Times bestselling author of THE TRINITY SIX‘City of Sins starts with a tsunami and ends with a hurricane, and nothing in between slows it down’ – Andrew Gross, New York Times bestselling author
About the author

Daniel Blake is the pseudonym of award-winning novelist and screenwriter Boris Starling. White Death is his seventh book, and he also created the BBC1 franchise ‘Messiah’ which ran for five series. He lives in Dorset with his wife and children.