Joe Donovan's back.

The body is discovered in a rundown area of Newcastle.  A Muslim student, savagely beaten to death, then torched. Blame falls on the far right National Unity Party but for once they appear to be innocent.  In fact, with elections looming, they are poised to make significant gains.

Not the best time for Trevor Whitman, ex-Seventies radical, to return to his native North East. He's haunted by his violent past and receiving death threats over the murder of a policeman years ago.  Joe Donovan and Peta Knight are called in to investigate.

After the death of a supposed would-be suicide bomber, the investigation takes on a more dangerous form as Donovan and the rest of his team enter the dark, twisted heart of radical urban politics, where players on all sides hide their true agendas behind masks of hatred. The investigation also cuts dangerously close to home for Peta, forcing her to reconsider every belief she has ever held.

Soon Donovan and his team are the targets of a ruthless killer unlike any they have ever faced before. A killer who will do anything to ensure a potentially explosive thirty-year secret remains buried.  Anything, no matter who stands in his way. Anything, even orchestrating a brutal race war that will tear the city apart.

Donovan and his team will need all their wits and skill to get out alive. But he has something else on his mind. Because he's tracked down his missing son.

Or thinks he has...

Coming in January 2008

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