Danny McRae is "an ex-copper trying to make a living as a private detective in a rundown flat in a bombed-out corner of South London". He is also a former Special Operations agent and was for six months an inmate of Dachau. And he grew up in the Gorbals of Glasgow.
The "mean streets" of New York have nothing on the mean streets of London immediately after World War II. The spivs operating the black market have more customers than they can handle. Men like Pauli Gambatti, whose men looted during the air-raids and sold their own stuff back to the people in Petticoat Lane, now have the whole thing organised.
Gambatti, predicatably, does not like Danny. But then what happens between them is far from predictable. As is what happens when a redhead called Eve Copeland walks into his office. (Aoart from the fact that Danny falls in love.) For a start, there is much, much more to Eve than meets the eye.
When she is kidnapped, Danny has to go to Berlin in search of her. And Berlin is even worse than London.
The first book in the series, Truth Dare Kill, was an eye-opener, but this one is outstanding – and so full, so complete, that it is hard to see where Gordon Ferris can go from here. But he is an excellent writer with a vivid imagination: he will come up with something, and I am looking forward to reading it.
JM
