The Abduction

A soldier retires from the army and is recruited into a mysterious government unit, and a young woman is abducted and murdered. DCI Steve Burt is reluctant to take on the case, but it soon becomes a murder investigation. The abducted girl is the daughter of a high court judge, and Steve thinks the man on trial is not important enough to have her kidnapped. The team unearth unrelated events that draw them back to a previous investigation, and one of Steve's officers decides to follow her own course of action, leading to disastrous consequences.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 332 pages
Publication date: 27 October 2022
Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

A soldier retires from the army and is recruited into a mysterious government unit and a young woman is abducted and murdered. These completely separate events become central to DCI Steve Burt´s latest and most devastating case. DCI Steve Burt, whose Special Resolutions Unit is under threat of closure by his new boss, is reluctantly given the abduction case which soon becomes a murder investigation. The abducted girl is the daughter of a high court judge, who is told his daughter will be returned if he finds the defendant in his current trial not guilty, but Steve thinks the man on trial isn’t important enough to have a judge’s daughter kidnapped. Something isn’t right, but what? The young woman’s death takes the DCI on a journey involving murder and corruption and the team begin to unearth apparently unrelated events that when put together draw them back to a previous investigation. Meanwhile one of Steve´s officers feels there is a different side to the investigation and decides to follow her own course of action without supervision with disastrous consequences.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800164642