The Crime Trade

When Operation Surgical Strike, a police sting designed to catch Columbian drug traffickers, goes tragically wrong, suspicion quickly falls on one of the undercover police officers involved: ‘Stegs’ Jenner. Stegs is no ordinary cop. Something of a maverick, with a chequered disciplinary record, he’s always lived life on the edge. With his close friend dead in the shoot-out and his many enemies sensing an opportunity to put the knife into his career, he finds himself isolated as never before.

Enter DI John Gallan and his partner DS Tina Boyd, part of the Serious Crime Squad investigating the murder of ex-gangster turned informer, Slim Robbie O’Brien. Slim Robbie had helped Gallan and Boyd set up the operation, and is now dead too, shot with his mother in his council flat in Islington, while events at Heathrow were taking place. Now it’s up to the two of them to piece together what happened.

Meanwhile Stegs is working to his own agenda, developing a plan he’s been thinking about for a long time. Revenge, he decides, is a dish best taken very, very cold.

As Gallan and Boyd inch ever nearer to the man responsible for the Heathrow shooting, they uncover a murderous conspiracy that will take them to the heart of one of London’s most notorious criminal gangs. What they cannot know is that they’ve also embarked on a collision path that will lead one of them straight into the rifle sights of the enemy. But does that enemy include Stegs?

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