For the Southeast London police squad it's rough tough dirty business as usual. The Vixen
the most sensuous crazed female serial killer ever is masterminding a series of lethal
explosions. She is unpredictable wild angry--and the cops don't even know she exists.
Meanwhile Inspector Roberts is helpless to stop the explosions and his subordinates aren't
doing much better. Brant is consumed with an even-bigger-than-usual mean streak and
fast-rising Porter Nash finds himself facing serious health problems--everything to do with
needles. PC MacDonald is determined to soldier on whatever the cost and the career of a new
addition to the squad WPC Andrews starts spectacularly but with Falls as her mentor she's not
expected to last long. At the top Superintendent Brown is close to a coronary and arresting
the wrong man in a blaze of publicity is only the beginning of his problems. If the squad
survives this incendiary installment in Ken Bruen's blazingly intense series they'll do so
with barely a cop left standing.
