<p><b>Evil lurks in the city streets.</b></p><p>A man is discovered on a leafy North London street, fighting for life after a brutal beating. <b>DI Matthew Denning</b> and his team are quickly called in to track down the monster responsible. </p><p>Except the victim is hiding secrets of his own. His name shows that he was reported missing two decades ago - but it¿s clear that the missing person is not the same man lying broken in a hospital bed.</p><p>A visit to a squalid East London flat unearths a victim with his throat slit, his body left to decompose. A sad end to any life - but when it is identified as former DCI Frank Buckfield, star of the Met police, the case takes on a new significance.</p><p>Two seemingly unrelated cases - but as Denning, along with <b>DS Molly Fisher</b>, investigates further, they uncover links between the two victims that lead back to a ring of silence cloaking the blackest of crimes.</p><p>But as Denning and Fisher try to track down a killer with revenge