Book description
When Detective Catrin Price returns to Cardiff after 12 years of
self-imposed exile she is determined to lay to rest the ghosts of her
unhappy past. Then her ex-boyfriend Rhys, once a promising young
policeman but now a washed-up junkie, is found dead on one of her
first nights on patrol. The official verdict is an accidental
overdose, but Cat is convinced that there is something more to his
death, something that will explain why the man who saved her life was
so unwilling to save his own.
Rhys had always been haunted by the mysterious disappearance of Owen
Face, the troubled lead singer of rock band Seerland, who was last
seen at a notorious suicide spot. No body was ever found and when Cat
joins forces with one of Rhys' former colleagues, now a wealthy
business man obsessed with all things Seerland-related, they begin to
wonder whether the rumours that Face is still alive may be true. But
when Cat is stalked by a meancing figure with a striking resemblance
to a serial rapist Rhys famously put away, she begins to realise her
life may also be in danger.
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.
