From the Afghanistan poppy fields to the smuggling routes across Europe and onwards to the cutting of the heroin and its sale on the streets of London, this action thriller peers into the dark recesses of the criminal underworld. A team of dedicated Metropolitan Police detectives is determined to bring the gangs down. When the Prime Minister's son is hospitalised after taking a heroin overdose Detective Superintendent John Brookes and his team are given licence to pursue the gangs responsible for distributing the drugs on London's streets. Brookes is intelligent, determined and not a little...