Vicious car-thieves are smashing their way into rural properties and stealing expensive cars. Their violence is escalating and detectives at Sussex Police are fearful they will eventually kill someone.
Their fears are realised when Sir Mathew Markham, owner of one of the UK’s most profitable high-tech companies, is killed. It is assumed his murder was the work of the gang but DI Angus Henderson is not so sure, as he believes there are significant differences between the way this attack was carried out and their activities in the past – why can no one else see it?
He tenaciously pursues his own theory, bringing him face to face with two killers…one who will stop at nothing to avoid going back to jail, and the other equally determined to wreak his own brand of vengeance.