<i>She breathes deeply, trying to quell the rising sense of panic. A detective came to her home, drugged her and kidnapped her. She tries to make sense of it, to imagine alternatives, but only one conclusion is possible: it's the past, come to claim her. </i><br/><br/>Martin Scarsden's new life seems perfect, right up until the moment it's shattered by a voicemail: a single scream, abruptly cut off, from his partner Mandalay Blonde.<br/><br/>Racing home, he finds an unconscious man sprawled on the floor and Mandy gone. Someone has abducted her. But who, and why?<br/><br/>So starts a twisting tale of intrigue and danger, as Martin probes the past of the woman he loves, a woman who has buried her former life so deep she has never mentioned it.<br/><br/>And for the first time, Mandy finds denial impossible, now the body of a mystery man has been discovered, a man whose name she doesn't know, a man she was engaged to marry when he died. It's time to face her demons once and for all; it's time she learned how to trust. <br/><br/>Set in a Sydney riven with corruption and nepotism, privilege and power, <i>Trust</i> is the third riveting novel from award-winning and internationally acclaimed writer Chris Hammer.<br/><br/>'The best Australian crime novel since Peter Temple's <i>The Broken Shore</i>.' - <i>The Times</i> on <i>Silver</i>