Detective Catrin Price has returned to Cardiff after 12 years to finally lay to rest the ghosts of her past. Then her ex-boyfriend Rhys, once a promising policeman but now a washed-up junkie, is found dead. The official verdict is an accidental overdose but Cat is convinced that there is something more, something that will explain why the man who once saved her life was so unwilling to save his own. But Cat's troubles have only just begun. Discovering that Rhys was investigating the disappearance of a troubled rock star, she finds herself drawn into the terrifying world of a cult.
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During the mid-1980s HOWARD MARKS had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and owened twenty-five companies trading throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana, and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI-6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the Drugs Enforcement Agency, he was busted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence.
"A dark and compelling read from a writer who knows his world from the inside out - a very impressive debut. I can't wait for Marks's next" -- M. R. Hall "A thrilling debut novel - Catrin Price is an engaging heroine" -- Kate Ellis "Britain's best loved retired dope dealer shows unexpected talents in this debut thriller." * The Independent * "Howard Marks has squatter's rights in the world of crime. And it shows" -- Graham Hurley "A sublime piece of crime writing... Sympathy for Devil is a breathtaking debut. It is perfectly plotted, often eerie, always evocative, and utterly thrilling throughout" * Bookgeeks.co.uk *
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