Jack Shaw is a particularly amoral man. Anything illegal and profitable - guns, drugs, pornography, and he's into it. A young girl goes missing on the Oakridge Estate and is later found several miles away, dazed, confused and not talking. Sutherland's team from Rochfield Central try to fit the pieces together. Then a body turns up so they have to go on a hunt for an ingenious murderer. Are the two crimes connected? This is the third, and darkest, in the series of detective stories featuring D C I Sutherland and D I Simpson to date and a worthy follow up to Spin a Web of Death.