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This is a brand new crime series from Howard Marks featuring DS Catrin Price.
DS Catrin Price is on administrative duty recovering from the trauma of her last case when she receives a series of cryptic messages from an old school friend. She tracks him down to an isolated town near the wilds of the Brecon Beacons. There she finds him destroyed by fear for his missing daughter and living in terror of a shadowy figure he refuses to name. 

Before Cat can begin to investigate the daughter's disappearance, another teenage girl is found dead in an abandoned mine shaft. The girl's death appears not to be connected to a series of missing persons cases in the area, but Cat is convinced sinister forces are at work. 

Cat embarks on a journey that takes her deep into the criminal underworld of London and into the darkest corners of the mind. She will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, but there are people who will stop at nothing to keep those truths hidden -- and they are watching her every move.

During the mid-1980s HOWARD MARKS had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and owned 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 MI6, 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. His autobiography, Mr Nice, was first published in 1996 and has been published in nine languages. The film of Mr Nice, starring Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny and David Thewliss, was released in 2010.