Graham Hurley

Past midnight, a horribly mutilated body is discovered on a road in Portsmouth, evidently killed in a hit and run. There are no witnesses - and few regrets. Why? Because the victim had been terrorising an entire estate. DI Joe Faraday unpicks the dead man

Past midnight, a horribly mutilated body is discovered on a road in Portsmouth, evidently killed in a hit and run. There are no witnesses - and few regrets. Why? Because the victim had been terrorising an entire estate. DI Joe Faraday unpicks the dead man

Installment five in the Faraday series is a gripping thriller about greed, power, corruption, and the iron pressures of political and personal compromise Time is up for Bazza Mackenzie—his stranglehold on Portsmouth's cocaine market has earned him millions of dollars that he's invested in legitimate businesses, but he police have mounted an operation, code-named Tumbril, to take down the city's biggest criminal. But when the detective in charge is nearly killed in a mysterious hit-and-run, it falls to Joe Faraday to put Mackenzie away. Tumbril is a career opportunity of a lifetime, but the team at the heart of the operation is fighting a war of its own. Then Faraday's son is arrested after a student dies from a heroin overdose, and Faraday finds himself totally isolated. Just who can he really trust?

DC Winter has gone undercover in an attempt to infiltrate the inner circle of the city's premier drug lord. Isolated from his colleagues, resenting the way his superiors have presented him the job as a fait accompli, and abroad in a world where money is easy and respect is earned in brutally straightforward ways, Winter is in his element—worryingly so. Concerns among his superiors that Winter may finally have had too much temptation put in his path are soon supplanted by two vicious murders. First, a high-profile local property developer is shot, with clinical efficiency, in his own bed. A few days later, a government minister is assassinated while his car is stuck in a traffic jam. A fevered investigation begins with Winter's erstwhile boss, detective inspector Faraday, in charge. With clues hard to come by, the government panicking, and the anti-terrorist branch circling, Faraday is shoved off the case and left in charge just of the investigation into the property developer's murder. Faraday is also tasked with keeping track of Winter and soon discovers that Winter, the arch-conspirator, has been set up. As Winter begins to realize what his bosses had in mind for him and Faraday begins to put together the pieces of a heartbreaking story of personal and political betrayal that may well link the two murders, The Price of Darkness becomes a study of the desperate measures some people take when their friends and their society let them down.

DC Winter has gone undercover in an attempt to infiltrate the inner circle of the city's premier drug lord. Isolated from his colleagues, resenting the way his superiors have presented him the job as a fait accompli, and abroad in a world where money is easy and respect is earned in brutally straightforward ways, Winter is in his element—worryingly so. Concerns among his superiors that Winter may finally have had too much temptation put in his path are soon supplanted by two vicious murders. First, a high-profile local property developer is shot, with clinical efficiency, in his own bed. A few days later, a government minister is assassinated while his car is stuck in a traffic jam. A fevered investigation begins with Winter's erstwhile boss, detective inspector Faraday, in charge. With clues hard to come by, the government panicking, and the anti-terrorist branch circling, Faraday is shoved off the case and left in charge just of the investigation into the property developer's murder. Faraday is also tasked with keeping track of Winter and soon discovers that Winter, the arch-conspirator, has been set up. As Winter begins to realize what his bosses had in mind for him and Faraday begins to put together the pieces of a heartbreaking story of personal and political betrayal that may well link the two murders, The Price of Darkness becomes a study of the desperate measures some people take when their friends and their society let them down.

Muž, připoutaný řetězy v tunelu a pak roztrhaný vlakem z Portsmouthu do Londýna, to je zatím nejnechutnější ze všech případů detektiva inspektora Joea Faradaye. Bizarní sebevražda? Zvrhle krutá vražda? Policie se snaží identifikovat tělo a při kontrole seznamu pohřešovaných osob narazí detektiv konstábl Paul Winter na muže, kterého nikdo nehledá. Nejde o muže z tunelu, prostě zmizel. Jediný člověk, který ho znal, pracuje v městské márnici. Osudy obyvatel, obětí, zločinců i policistů, ti všichni se snaží přežít v současné Británii.

Muž, připoutaný řetězy v tunelu a pak roztrhaný vlakem z Portsmouthu do Londýna, to je zatím nejnechutnější ze všech případů detektiva inspektora Joea Faradaye. Bizarní sebevražda? Zvrhle krutá vražda? Policie se snaží identifikovat tělo a při kontrole seznamu pohřešovaných osob narazí detektiv konstábl Paul Winter na muže, kterého nikdo nehledá. Nejde o muže z tunelu, prostě zmizel. Jediný člověk, který ho znal, pracuje v městské márnici. Osudy obyvatel, obětí, zločinců i policistů, ti všichni se snaží přežít v současné Británii.