Publisher's Synopsis
January 1983. A new year brings new resolutions for DI Nicholas Lowry. As a result, the largest remaining threat to his health is now DC Daniel Kenton's reckless driving. WPC Jane Gabriel is the newest recruit. Despite a familial tie to top brass, Gabriel's beauty and youth have affected her male colleagues in different ways. On the Blackwater Estuary, an illicit shipment is bound for Colchester - 100kgs of powder that will frantically accelerate tensions in the historic town, and leave its own murderous trace. Lowry, Kenton and Gabriel must now develop a tolerance to one another, and show their own substance, to save Britain's oldest settlement from a new, unsettling enemy.
