Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner could be forgiven for thinking that someone is out to get him With his marriage already on the rocks, he suddenly finds his private life plastered across the pages of a sleazy tabloid Then a woman already linked to Skinner by tragedy is found battered, raped and strangled, with her young son a kidnap victim As a second brutal crime, and new allegations about the detective himself, make simultaneous headlines, Skinner finds himself at the centre of a deadly maze of conspiracy Unless he can clear his name, and uncover the secret behind the series of events, he stands to lose his family, his career, and even his life