"When a seventeen-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide and Serious Crime Unit. And Karen, whilst knowing that she needs a result, is unaware that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organised crime that is infiltrating most aspects of London society. Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, DI Trevor Cordon is stirred from his routine duties by another tragic London fatality. Travelling to the capital to establish the cause of death and trace the deceased's daughter - an old acquaintance - Cordon becomes entangled in a complicated situation of his own. A situation much closer to Karen's case than either of them will ever know ..."--BOOK COVER.