A pulsating psychological thriller that takes you from the dark heart of a cold English city to the searing white - heat of an Australian wilderness...<br/>By Merseyside standards it's been some time since a decent corpse arrived on his patch, but now, on a bone - cold October morning, Detective Inspector Frank Keane's wait is over.<br/>The son of Keane's old boss, the legendary DI Menno Koopman, has been discovered dead twelve thousand miles from his Australian home, lashed to a scaffolding pole on Liverpool's bleak shoreline. It's the start of a vicious cycle of violence spanning half the globe.<br/>For Koopman, who turned his back on a thirty - year career in the city to live the quiet life in northern New South Wales, the death of a son he never knew means a return to England and the past he'd left behind.<br/>Koopman has not been forgotten in his old hunting ground - not by his former colleagues, and not by the enemies waiting for him. As the body count rises in Liverpool and Australia, Keane and Koopman's search for the killer becomes a fight for survival.<br/>