The South African

Detective Sergeant Paul Mackenzie of the Durban police force arrives in London determined to discover the truth about the death of his detective brother, David. Both men were on the trail of a ruthless gang of drugs traffickers who use human carriers to ferry heroin from South Africa to the streets of London. Did David get too close to the truth and pay with his life? That is what Paul must find out, and he is instantly thrown into a ferocious life or death struggle as he searches for the truth among London?s drug gangs.

Running in parallel is the tale of Matthew Richardson, an aristocrat educated at Eton and Sandhurst who now travels the world as a hired killer, his only motivation being the chase and the kill. Whether in Bosnia, the Middle East, France or Jamaica, Matthew must stay one step ahead of his enemies ? and sometimes his clients ? if he is to keep his secret identity from being discovered.

As the stories of Paul and Matthew criss-cross each other, not only are many lives at stake: long-buried family secrets are threatening to surface in this taut thriller.