The Betrayed

Peter McCellan, a provincial family solicitor, has forty-eight hours to find a missing French masterpiece The First Journey of Christ - stolen for the second time in its chequered history in a notorious gangland robbery of 1966. If he doesn't succeed, his beloved wife and only son had better start praying. For their destiny lies in the hands of Eddie Doyle, hardened ex-con with blood on his hands and revenge in his cold heart.

In a fast paced romp that reignites the seedy glamour of gangland London in the not so swinging 60s, betrayal is the key. But who is betraying whom? What dark secrets lie in Peter's father's past? And what part did he play in an unfolding drama of kidnap, extortion, violence and murder? What betrayal keeps gangland thug Murphy and his sibling stooges on a crash course with vengeance? And Doyle himself? As the betrayals and counter betrayals stack up around him, he has one burning obsession, an obsession that he has lived with for the best part of thirty years as he lay rotting at Her Majesty's pleasure. And all because of a painting. A painting to steal for. A painting to kill for. A painting to die for...