A mass shooting. An amoral Romanian gangster. A Russian oligarch who claims to be an honest businessman, but isn’t.

No one knows who was the target or why, but there are eight dead. The men seem the most likely, or could have it been one of the two women, the attractive Gillian Dickenson, or even the celebrity-obsessed Sal Maynard?

There’s a gang war brewing, and if there are deaths, it doesn’t matter to them as long as it’s not them. But to Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook, it's his area of London, and it does.

It’s dirty and unpredictable, and initially, it had been the West Indian gangs. But then a more vicious Romanian gangster had usurped them. And now he’s being marginalised by the Russians. And the leader of the most vicious Russian mafia organisation is in London, and he’s got money and influence, the ear of those in power.