It's a cold wet winter night when a car pulls into a service station on Dublin quays. Strapped on to the back-seat is a three-year-old boy. Asleep. Five minutes later he's gone – kidnapped in the time it's taken his mother to pay for her petrol. Distraught and fearing for his safety,she has only one option: DI Jo Birmingham. Her search for the little boy takes her into a dark world of lies and corruption, where hard cash is king, where sex is a commodity to be bought and sold – and where the lost and vulnerable are in terrifying danger ...