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The stunning finale to the Baltazar Trilogy.
Unexpectedly called back to duty after two months fruitlessly shadowing Polish crime kingpin Jan Baltazar, DI Buchan has no idea what will be waiting for him. Nevertheless, the small-time gangland murder that is reported on his first morning back reveals there’s trouble in store.
When another officer from the Serious Crime Unit is murdered the following day, Buchan and his team see Baltazar’s dark shadow all over the death. However, everywhere he turns, it seems Baltazar has already been. Everyone he speaks to, Baltazar has already compromised.
But as the fight for control of the city streets comes to a head, Buchan begins to realise that Baltazar is not his only enemy, and that there are older and fouler things than a Polish mobster in the deep places of the town…
"Lindsay writes with the skill of a master of the golden age." SHOTS
Genre: Mystery
Unexpectedly called back to duty after two months fruitlessly shadowing Polish crime kingpin Jan Baltazar, DI Buchan has no idea what will be waiting for him. Nevertheless, the small-time gangland murder that is reported on his first morning back reveals there’s trouble in store.
When another officer from the Serious Crime Unit is murdered the following day, Buchan and his team see Baltazar’s dark shadow all over the death. However, everywhere he turns, it seems Baltazar has already been. Everyone he speaks to, Baltazar has already compromised.
But as the fight for control of the city streets comes to a head, Buchan begins to realise that Baltazar is not his only enemy, and that there are older and fouler things than a Polish mobster in the deep places of the town…
"Lindsay writes with the skill of a master of the golden age." SHOTS
Genre: Mystery
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