Brighton; and an armed police intervention has gone badly wrong. Four
people have been killed by the police. Sarah Gilchrist, one of the
armed officers, saw one man trying to escape with something in his
hand. He is killed by a sniper outside before she can stop him. The
object disappears.
Chief Constable Robert Watts initially
supports his officers on principle, but is forced to resign when it
comes out that he had had a fling with Gilchrist. One one the
commanding officers on the intervention has committed suicide, while two
others have disappeared. Watts feels that he has been set up, but how
can he prove it? He turns to his friend, and ex-SAS, James Tingley.
Meantime,
Kate Simpson, a journalist, is looking into leads about murders that
had occurred in 1934. She has been given old police files that were
found in the Brighton Pavilion. She wants Watts to help look into the
cold case.
At the same time, the body of one of the missing
policemen has turned up. He has been murdered and Sarah has brought it
to the attention of Watts. He is unable to do anything about it.
Tingley
and Gilchrist are drawn into helping sort out the cold case. Because
Gilchrist is still working to gain information on the original blood
bath someone torches her flat. She begins to wonder if the police
involved in the shooting are being picked off.
Author Peter
Gutteridge leaves many questions unanswered as he draws the novel to a
conclusion, leaving the reader wanting more. I am looking forward to
the sequel, "Last King of Brighton".
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