City on Fire: Jo Howe

After losing her sister to a drug overdose, Chief Superintendent Jo Howe is desperate to tackle the world of drugs that consumes the shadowy backstreets of Brighton. Operation Eradicate is her response, deploying undercover tactics to collapse drug circles while also providing treatment services to victims of drug abuse. But not everyone sees this as a positive development .

The man behind Respite pharmaceuticals, billionaire Sir Ben Campbell, views Operation Eradicate as a threat to his business. His colossal empire relies on burgeoning numbers of addicts who survive on their substitute drugs. With connections in the highest levels of government, media and organised crime, Sir Ben unleashes a brutal counterattack on Jo. The question is, how will she survive this fierce onslaught?

Bartlett is a former Chief Superintendent for Brighton and Hove and is now an advisor to crime writers such as Peter James, Mark Billingham and Anthony Horowitz Graham's new novel uncovers how drugs impact on every corner of society, via crime, addiction and lucrative pharmaceutical advances The third explosive crime thriller set in the dark underbelly of Brighton following the huge success of Bad For Good and Force of Hate