Another gripping case for DI Joe Faraday.
A young girl falls to her death, and the shadowy figure of a young boy
is caught on CCTV... DI Joe Faraday is on the case, but his
investigation is hampered when resources are switched to a murder
enquiry prompted by the discovery of the body of a small time crook on
wasteland north of the city.
Faraday plunges into Portsmouth's bleak netherworld of wrecked families
and children cast adrift in a society too fragmented to care. But as he
tracks down the boy, he is faced with a crisis much closer to home.