By Jay Stringer
After narrowly surviving a vicious knife assault, gangland detective Eoin Miller thinks he’s earned a holiday from removing thieves, runaways, and stolen drug cash. but if crime boss Veronica Gaines suggestions him off to a very delicate new case, his Romani blood won’t permit him say no. A rapist is concentrating on immigrant women, and the half-gypsy Eoin understands all too good simply how little aid an interloper can anticipate from the neighborhood police. in addition to, his customer isn’t trying to find somebody to arrest the bastard. He’s trying to find somebody to forestall him—for reliable.
But the deeper Eoin digs, the extra tangled he turns into in an internet of corruption, racism, and revenge…especially as soon as his prior threatens to derail the research by way of elevating questions on his personal loyalty and relations ties. along with his lifestyles teetering near to catastrophe, Eoin realizes there's a wonderful line among justice and punishment. Now it’s as much as him to choose simply which aspect he’s on.
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