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Unusually for many of my books the leading character in this novel is a woman, highly educated, successful in business, and yet when her stepson is murdered she discovers, as many people do these days, that the law is unable to help. She turns to revenge, enlisting the help of a young, ex-SAS, sergeant to help her hunt down the villains concerned.

A rather interesting thing happened with this book. A disgraced British Army officer turned gun-for-hire, Jago, is employed by the mysterious Mr Smith to dog her footsteps. The astonishing thing was that Jago actually became enormously popular with the readers and I received many letters asking me to use him again.

The book is another example of twin obsessions in my writing: East End gangsters and the wonderful city of London.