Audio Book Description:
On a summer night, an attractive woman hurtles north in a blue Peugeot with an addressin her pocket, while, back inLondon, a desperate man leaves alate-night phone message on hisbrothersanswering machine. By sunrise, the womanis found in hercar, shot, execution style, through the head. Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot arrives on the scene and discovers a slip of paper in the dead woman`s pocketthat bears the name of her coleague anderstwhile lover, Detective Chief Inspec-tor Alan Banks. Banks, Meanwhile - whithdran afternearly dying in the firethat destroyed his home - has gonemissing just when he`s needed most, and has left plenty of questions behind. As Annie struggles to determine if Banks is safe - and what role he mayhave played in this woman`s murder - Banks himself investigates they myster- ious disappearance of his estranged brother, Roy. Working from Roy`s swankapartment, Banks makes the rounds to Roy`s old haunts and slowly inhabits thelife of his younger brother, the back sheep of the family. As the trial ofclues about Roy`s life and associations draws Banks into a darkcircle of conspiracy and corruption, mobsters and murder,Banks suddenly realizes he`srunning out of time to save Roy, and by digging too deep, hemay be exposing himself and hisfamily to the same - possibly deadly - danger.
