
The three murderers of drug baron Kenward Knapp are after Keith Vine, now an informant for Chief Detective Superintendent Colin Harpur, who wants to send him into hiding. But the coldly plotting ACC Desmond Isles has other plans; he wants to use Vine as bait for the killers.

The detective is dead because the old process of justice doesn't work any more. No one, including Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, would testify at the trial; Harpur refused to name his informant. The three murderers who were being tried are part of a savage underworld...
