Money With Menaces

Wednesday 5 January is a black day in the police calendar of dockland Canton and its Art Deco resort of Ocean Beach. It dawns in freezing mist and icy roads. It ends with a vanload of drugs hijacked two policemen dead and gunfire on the motorway. DCI Sam Hoskins and his sergeant Jack Chance are meanwhile embroiled in a fruitless investigation of Billy Catte seaside arcade proprietor and club-owner. In a political storm that pits zealous social workers against municipal gangsters as well as police against revenge and kidnap Hoskins holds the tenuous thread on which several lives depend ...