A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young womans desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly eraseda policeman who has since gone missing.The dead woman in the car had been running from somethingbut she didnt run far or fast enough. Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot would like to question the man the victim was apparently racing to meet: Annies superiorand former loverDetective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But Banks has vanished into the anonymous chaos of the city, drawn into a mad whirl of greed, inhumanity, and death, by a frantic phone call from the brother he no longer knows. Banks is unaware that the threads connecting a sinister kidnapping with a savage slaying are as thick as rope . . . and long enough for a haunted and broken rogue cop to hang himself.
