内容简介：
Two inquiries: the suspicious death of a fourteen-year-old girl, the murder of a small-time drug dealer. For DI Inspector Joe Faraday it means a lonely plunge into Portsmouth's bleak netherworld of wrecked families and children cast adrift in a society too fragmented to care. For Detective Constable Paul Winter it means a place at the sharp end of a high-profile investigation into the city's booming drug's trade. Getting his hands dirty, trying not to think about the death of his wife.