Publisher's Synopsis
For years, Detective Chief Superintendent Harpur's slippery boss, Desmond Iles, had a nod-and-wink arrangement with drug dealers on his patch. Iles would turn a blind eye to their businesses if they kept the peace. But the pact is knocked sideways by a slackening in drugs legislation. When competition grows and profits slide, gang war erupts. Harpur is called in to try and end the chaos. But, he is on his own, with Iles feeling justified by the new disorder and violence - as proof that his way of running things was right.
