One of the estate's regular dog walkers found the man early in the morning. Lying with his head by a row of parked cars and his feet by a brick shed full of dustbins. It isn't South London's first murder of the year and it didn't need a sociologist to say it wouldn't be the last. But to DCI George Havilland, Joe Bates is special. His murder is a crime worth solving - even if it costs him his job.
Because Joe Bates had been Matthew Hill's driver and knew him inside out. And Hill is the untouchable high-class villain who has walked away laughing one too many times. Now Havilland wants him. Wants him badly enough to cross the river, leaving his rule book behind.
