A woman has been kidnapped at gunpoint, and her chauffeur murdered. DI
Charlie Priest is now wanted by the Assistant Commissioner to come off
his sick leave and take over the investigation. Priest questions the
husband and he states that the wife isn't missing, just gone. He also
tells Priest that he had the car the chauffeur had been driving given a
thorough cleaning because it was muddy. It seems a little suspicious to the reader, but Priest does nothing about it.
Later, bullets from the same
rifle that killed the chauffeur turn up in the body of a lorry driver.
His lorry had been burned in the hopes of hiding the evidence, and had been carrying a load of cigarettes for the south of France.
Meantime, Priest is bored with sick leave, so he accepts an assignment
to spy on a drug ring. Later Priest and his girlfriend are followed
after the house next door to where he was doing surveillance from
burns. Fortunately his high powered Jaguar allows him to make an
escape.
As the police investigation progresses, they are able to
tie the kidnapping and some murders together with the highjacked lorry.
Author Stuart Pawson puts together a gripping conclusion to this
murder mystery thriller. A very good read.
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