Narrator - Paul Thornley
Dan Shepherd Series Book 7

All over London, criminals are being viciously attacked and left bleeding
or crippled by vigilante cops. For some, this is no great tragedy - after
all, crime rates appear to be on the decrease. But it is inevitable that
the situation must change, and Dan Shepherd, working for the Serious
Organised Crime Agency, is instructed by his bosses that this form of
justice without benefit of law court has to end. Shepherd, of course, has
always been fully aware that fighting crime is a deeply ambiguous business,
and that rules now and then have to be broken. But he realises that an
unpleasant job has to be done, and gets on with it, even though he is
unhappy with the task of investigating fellow police officers. He finds
it necessary to go undercover and join a crack squad of officers who know
exactly what is happening on the streets. Needless to say, he is soon having
to make extremely uncomfortable decisions - not least when he finds his own
family under threat.

Avid crime readers will spot that Dan Shepherd's job here is not a million
miles away from that of Ian Rankin's post-Rebus protagonist Malcolm Fox, but
Stephen Leather deals in a very different kind of crime fiction. All of the
elements that make Leathers earlier work so pungent are fully in play here,
and his customary command of pace (usually, foot pressed firmly to the floor)
is also much in evidence. We are comfortable now in the rough company of Dan
Shepherd, and despite this being one of Leathers longest novels , most readers
will find it reads like a much shorter book - that is to say: not easily put
down.

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