The Heights

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What starts with the gruesome discovery of a severed head on the Tube soon becomes personal for former DI Cal Drake. After one betrayal too many, Drake has abandoned the police force to become a private detective. He's joined forces with enigmatic forensic pathologist Dr Rayhana Crane and it's not long before the case leads them to the darkest corners of the nation's capital and in dangerously close contact with an international crime circuit, a brutal local rivalry and a very personal quest for retribution. With the murder victim closely tied to Drake's past, his new future is about to come under threat.

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Inventive and original . . . The Heights is a complex and satisfying mystery involving finance, gangland, trafficking and prostitution. A layered, no-nonsense thriller that is intriguing and exciting * * NB Magazine * *
Praise for The Divinities: Terrific crime fiction rooted in geopolitics * * Sunday Times * *
Bilal tells the story with ferocious, exhilarating energy . . . essential reading * * Daily Telegraph * *
A firecracker of a novel that delves deep into the rot infecting both politics and big business -- ERIC VAN LUSTBADER, author of The Bourne Legacy
Told with a delicate elegance . . . It promises to be a fine series * * Daily Mail * *
A brilliantly-written London Noir from a master of the crime genre -- MASON CROSS, author of Presumed Dead
A fresh and vivid portrait of a city that is less melting pot than explosive pressure cooker * * Guardian * *

Author Bio

Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub, the critically acclaimed literary novelist. He is the author of the Makana Investigations series, the third of which, The Ghost Runner, was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The Divinities, the first in his Crane and Drake London crime series, was published in 2019. Born in London, he has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands.

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