From the Sunday Times no.1 bestselling author, a brilliant page-turning new thriller that will keep you gripped and guessing until the very last page.

Tony Parsons puts you right there in every scene he writes. I love that kind of storytelling and I'm a D.C. Max Wolfe fan. - James Patterson From the Sunday Times no.1 bestselling author, a brilliant page-turning new thriller that will keep you gripped and guessing until the very last page.

12 DEAD GIRLS

As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside, twelve women, apparently illegal immigrants, are dead from hypothermia.

13 PASSPORTS

But in the cab of the abandoned death truck, DC Max Wolfe of West End Central finds thirteen passports.

WHERE IS SHE?

The hunt for the missing woman will take Max Wolfe into the dark heart of the world of human smuggling, mass migration and 21st-century slave markets, as he is forced to ask the question that haunts our time.

What would you do for a home?

'Brilliant' Peter James

'Spectacular' Lee Child

'A must-read' Jeffery Deaver

'Story-telling as hard-hitting as a leather sap, dialogue that packs all the punch of Wolfe's favourite triple expresso ... and an affection for London that makes this crime writing to die for' GQ

Praise for Tony Parsons...

It's all as addictive as your favourite boxset...it contains more twists than a contortionist caught in a tornado ( The Shortlist )

Told with clarity and insight ... Confirms Parsons has earned a place at the very pinnacle of British crime writing ( Daily Mail )

Tense ...with a dose of dry wit ( The Daily Express )

A taut always engaging thriller ( The Sun )

I put my life on hold while I was reading because I couldn't tear myself away from the gripping story ... It's complicated, brutal but Tony Parsons has managed to weave the brutality into a truly brilliant story ( Bestselling Crime Thrillers )

It's a brilliant crime novel , a thrilling procedural. Max Wolfe is a wonderfully endearing character, smart and tough and vulnerable, and with Scout (and Stan too) Tony has created so much warmth and tenderness, in a world, a genre, so often devoid of it. His research is wide, deep, impeccable - from forensics to the psychology, procedure to protocol. And boy does he know how to create suspense, and convincing plot lines, which snake and weave, and surprise right until the very end. This is a complex, shocking, very contemporary story, told with utter conviction and authority. I was hooked from page one. Crime writing has a brilliant new star (Henry Sutton) Superbly crafted crime drama that grips from start to finish ( The Sunday Post )

Fast paced and gripping ( The Scotsman )

'[Tony Parsons'] writing pedigree is first class. It shows in this terrific thriller , and Max Wolfe is a class act, a brilliant character that has to feature again ... Absolutely stunning !' ( Books Monthly ) Publisher's Description