"Fans of Mark Billingham's Tom Thorne will love this book as will fans of Angela Marsons Kim Stone. I'll certainly be looking out for more from the author." Tom Southern Goodreads He's disrupted their plans and now they're going make him suffer, by taking his daughter: his last connection to his dead wife. They'll decide who lives and who dies. Widowed Detective Tom Blake sets off a chain of events that change his life forever, when the brutal murder of an alcoholic skinhead, and arrest of a vicious Turkish loan shark, unwittingly disrupts an international gang's daring plans to steal the world-famous Staffordshire Hoard. In a cruel twist of fate, Blake's daughter is kidnapped and the trail propels the bereft detective on a personal quest to Miami to save her life. Operating outside the law, he enters into an illicit showdown with a mysterious artefacts Collector, almost costing him his life. As the body count rises, Blake and his team struggle to unravel the conspiracy of a shadowy killer who leaves no trace. With only circumstantial evidence against each of the suspects, they hit a wall, until twenty-six-year-old photographs linking them to the murdered skinhead emerge. It seems the victim's depraved past is the key to identifying the killer. Can the police uncover the truth through all the lies and deception, and crack the case before someone else gets killed? And will they recover a legendary national treasure, worth millions, before it's lost forever? Discover the electrifying, nail-bitingly tense, twisting new police thriller with a shocking ending, from J.F.Burgess. What readers are saying: 'WOW, what a debut novel this is!!!!! It drew me in from the first page and kept me on the edge of my seat until the end. It totally blew me away. Packed full of action and twists I didn't see coming!' Audrey Gibson GOODREADS 5 stars 'A very exciting debut novel.' Alyson R AMAZON 4 stars 'A really compelling read. Just couldn't put it down.' Ron Allcock AMAZON 5 stars 'Brilliant debut, exciting, intriguing and very well paced and written.' MARK FEARN BOOKMARK 5 stars 'This is the first novel by this author and it is a shocker! Brilliantly thought through and executed.' Mrs J AMAZON 5 stars 'A real page-turner from start to finish and the ending is brilliant not the usual run of the mill at all. If you want to know why read the book, it's brilliant.' John Thys AMAZON 5 stars 'The book is a roller-coaster read, offering a cunningly woven web of sex, drugs, violence and crime' MAX PINNER AUSTRALIA 'I was immediately rooting for DI Blake and DS Murphy and loved their on-page banter. The introduction of all the characters was done incredibly well and held my interest.' BOOK JAR JOURNEYS
