Exploitation. Kidnap. Murder
Sam Turiff is a loan shark preying on the most vulnerable people in Newcastle.
Detective Eric Ward’s investigation runs into a brick wall trying to bring down the callous criminal. No one will give evidence against him. They are frightened what he’ll do to them.
Then Kate Geraghty is kidnapped. She is the granddaughter of local tycoon Liam Geraghty, and there’s a link to the loan shark.
But who carried out the kidnapping and why?
The case soon turns into a murder investigation, and Ward finds himself up against a Northern crime empire.
Can detective Ward bring down the crime lord before anyone else pays the ultimate price?
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Roy Lewis (1933–2019) was a well-established crime writer with more than sixty novels to his name. He lived in the north of England, where he set many of his books. He was a former college principal and Inspector of Schools who ran business training programs and had business interests in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. His three children are all lawyers. He also wrote books on law under the pen name J. R. Lewis.
John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is an accomplished stage actor and has written and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963–64 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.