When ex-mercenary Max Iversson accompanies a nightclub owner to an ill-fated rendezvous in a deserted north London industrial estate, it turns out to be not so much a set-up as a bloodbath. Three men have been shot, the briefcase Iversson has been guarding is empty--and he wants to know why.
So begins a hunt for answers that will take him into direct conflict with Detective Sergeant John Gallan--and take both men into very dangerous territory.
Simon Kernick was born in 1966. He spent ten years working as a salesman in the IT industry before he began writing. His first book, The Business of Dying, has won him popular and critical acclaim. He now writes full-time and lives near London with his wife and young daughter.