Alexander Fitzpatrick is one of the most wanted men in the Western world. Wealthy, handsome, charismatic and supremely dangerous, with numerous aliases, Fitzpatrick is a drug-trafficker who has eluded arrest for more than thirty years. For the past decade there has been no sightings of him.
In a notorious drug dealers' squat in north London ex-police officer Frank Brandon is shot dead. DI Anna Travis tries to connect the presence of her much-respected ex-colleague with such desperate surroundings. Her formidable new boss, DCI Carol Cunningham, impatient for results and frustrated by the total lack of credible suspects is constantly challenging her.
