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Installment five in the Faraday series is a gripping thriller about greed, power, corruption, and the iron pressures of political and personal compromise Time is up for Bazza Mackenzie—his stranglehold on Portsmouth's cocaine market has earned him millions of dollars that he's invested in legitimate businesses, but he police have mounted an operation, code-named Tumbril, to take down the city's biggest criminal. But when the detective in charge is nearly killed in a mysterious hit-and-run, it falls to Joe Faraday to put Mackenzie away. Tumbril is a career opportunity of a lifetime, but the team at the heart of the operation is fighting a war of its own. Then Faraday's son is arrested after a student dies from a heroin overdose, and Faraday finds himself totally isolated. Just who can he really trust?

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Graham Hurley is an award-winning TV documentary maker who now writes full time. His sixth Faraday and Winter novel, Blood and Honey, was short-listed for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

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"Strong characterization and tight plotting."  —Publishers Weekly on One Under

"Readers who haven’t already found the brilliant Joe Faraday series of novels by Graham Hurley should pick up the latest superb episode—Cut to Black. Hurley is one of the best of the new crop of realistic cop-shop writers . . . He’s a very different kind of writer to Ian Rankin but he’s every bit as good."  —Toronto Globe and Mail

"This book has everything required of a first rate police procedural and Hurley is now firmly at the top, with few rivals in this genre."  —Sunday Telegraph"A great British police procedural. Faraday is a fine creation."  —Michael Connelly, author, A Darkness More than Night
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