Sam Turner has more than enough on his plate. He is helping the woman from Scottish Widows track the murderer of her husband and is investigating the death of a teenage runaway. That's without his office being trashed and Frank Taylor, a bad-news gang boss from Manchester, turning up with his nasty habits and even nastier tastes. "John Baker brings heart, invention and wit to the business of adapting the tough-guy novel to the realities of contemporary Britain." Ian Ousby, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY