Publisher's Synopsis
London is a tough place to be a cop - and John Carlyle is nobody's idea of a hero. Terrorist attacks, feuding gangsters, religious charlatans and naked bike riding protests that descend into violence - the long-suffering inspector has to deal with them all. Meanwhile, Seymour Erikssen has just slipped through his fingers, again; 'London's most unsuccessful criminal' is back picking the pockets of the wrong people while the media are up in arms about the police's inability to keep him behind bars. Trying to keep his sergeant, Umar Sligo, on the straight and narrow is also proving to be impossible.
