Publisher's Synopsis
"Faraday is a fine creation." MICHAEL CONNELLY Why did fourteen-year-old Helen Bassam fall to her death from a tower block? A gesture of despair? Or does a young boy have a role in the tragedy? Detective Inspector Joe Faraday plunges into Portsmouth's bleak netherworld of wrecked families and children cast adrift, but he finds resources haemorrhaging away from him. The body of a small-time dealer has been found hanging, naked but for a pair of lacy red knickers, from a tree. The powers-that-be scent a PR victory in the never-ending war on drugs: get a result on this and maybe the Police can be seen to be making a difference...
