The crime trade

Kernick, Simon

| 2004

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A dark, gritty page-turner, set in London's meanest streets. When an undercover sting operation designed to catch Columbian drug traffickers, goes horribly wrong in a Heathrow hotel, suspicion falls on one of the officers involved: " Stegs" Jenner. But Stegs is no ordinary undercover cop; something of a maverick, he's always lived life on the edge. Now, with his close friend dead in the shoot-out, he determines to go it alone. Enter D.I. John Gallan and his partner D.S. Tina Boyd. They are investigating the murder of ex-gangster turned informer, Slim Robbie O' Brien. Slim Robbie had helped Gallan and Boyd set up the sting operation and now he is dead too, shot with his mother at his flat while events at Heathrow were taking place. Meanwhile Stegs Jenner is working on a plan he's been developing for a long time. Revenge, he decides, is a dish best taken very, very cold. As Gallan, Boyd and...

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