Read Cut To Black Storyline:
Time's up for Bazza Mackenzie. His choke hold on Portsmouth's cocaine market has earned him millions of pounds, money he's invested in a portfolio of legitimate businesses. Rich and well-connected, he boasts of being beyond the beckoning arm of the law. The police, only too aware of the message Mackenzie sends, have mounted a long-term covert operation, code named Tumbril, to take down the city's biggest criminal. But when the detective in charge of Tumbril is. nearly killed in a mysterious hit-and-run, the gloves are off. And it falls to Joe Faraday to put Mackenzie before a judge and jury Tumbril is a career opportunity of a lifetime but the team at the heart of the operation are fighting a war of their own, hemmed in by rules of engagement that leave Faraday deeply uncomfortable. His grip on events loosens further when his deaf son J-J is himself arrested on a supply charge after the death of a student from a heroin overdose. As Tumbril gathers speed, and the demands for a result grow ever more pressing, Faraday finds himself totally isolated. Just who can he really trust?Cut to Black is a gripping thriller about greed, power, corruption, and the iron pressures of political and personal compromise. At the same time, it offers a remarkable insight into the on-going battle for control of the UK's multi-billion pound drugs business. Every British city has a Bazza Mackenzie. And every police chief faces the same question: Just how do you nail him?This is Graham Hurley's fifth novel to feature D/I Joe Faraday and DC Paul Winter. It follows Turnstone, The Take, Angels Passing and Deadlight An award-winning TV documentary maker, Graham now writes full-time. He lives with his wife, Lin, in Portsmouth.Pages of Cut To Black :
