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?