Synopses & Reviews
Installment five in the Faraday series is a gripping thriller about greed, power, corruption, and the iron pressures of political and personal compromise Time is up for Bazza Mackenziehis stranglehold on Portsmouth's cocaine market has earned him millions of dollars that he's invested in legitimate businesses, but he police have mounted an operation, code-named Tumbril, to take down the city's biggest criminal. But when the detective in charge is nearly killed in a mysterious hit-and-run, it falls to Joe Faraday to put Mackenzie away. Tumbril is a career opportunity of a lifetime, but the team at the heart of the operation is fighting a war of its own. Then Faraday's son is arrested after a student dies from a heroin overdose, and Faraday finds himself totally isolated. Just who can he really trust?
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"Strong characterization and tight plotting." Publishers Weekly on One Under
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"Readers who havent already found the brilliant Joe Faraday series of novels by Graham Hurley should pick up the latest superb episodeCut to Black. Hurley is one of the best of the new crop of realistic cop-shop writers . . . Hes a very different kind of writer to Ian Rankin but hes every bit as good." Toronto Globe and Mail
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"This book has everything required of a first rate police procedural and Hurley is now firmly at the top, with few rivals in this genre." Sunday Telegraph
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"A great British police procedural. Faraday is a fine creation." Michael Connelly, author, A Darkness More than Night
Synopsis
A massive undercover operation turns personal for DI Faraday when his son is involved.
Portsmouth's major drug dealer's time is up. For years Bazza Mackenzie has made millions selling cocaine and heroin into the streets of Portsmouth. He's laundered the money and on the surface at least is one of Hampshire's great and the good.
The police have had enough and a year long undercover operation is set up to trap Mackenzie. But when one of the investigation's leading lights is run over and put in hospital Joe Faraday is drafted in to wrap things up.
It should be a dream job but Joe fears someone will move in to fill the vacuum when Bazza is gone. Bazza seems to be one step ahead of the investigation at every turn in any case. And then Faraday's son J-J is arrested. He faces a manslaughter charge for supplying drugs to an addict who has subsequently overdosed...
About the Author
Graham Hurley is an award-winning TV documentary maker who now writes full time. His sixth Faraday and Winter novel, Blood and Honey, was short-listed for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.