When Detective Inspector Mike Nash is drawn into a decades-old mystery surrounding the Perry crime family, he discovers that a long-forgotten shipment of blood diamonds may be at the heart of a deadly conspiracy. The diamonds disappeared more than twenty-five years ago along with their couriers, shortly before gangster Max Perry was murdered. Now, with Max’s surviving associates showing renewed interest in the missing stones, Nash suspects that someone may finally know where they went.
The investigation takes a darker turn when DNA evidence links Graham Nattrass to the unidentified remains of a woman discovered nearly twenty-five years earlier. Nash and DS Mironova begin tracing the connection to Max Perry, his wife Corinna, and the criminal empire that once controlled much of London.
As the truth emerges, murder, organised crime, corruption and betrayal collide. When Tina Silver is attacked and left for dead, Nash realizes the killers are still searching for something—and they will stop at nothing to find it.