The syndicate have taken everything from her. Its time to take them downor die trying.DCI Kate Young never meant to shoot Superintendent John Dickson at the reservoir that nighteven if, as a scheming corrupt cop and head of the shady syndicate, he probably had it coming. But now Kate has photographic evidence that someone else knows her terrible secretTormented by guilt and the voices of the dead, Kate is desperate to unmask the rest of the corrupt officers before her own sins catch up with her. When DI Harriet Khatri, awaiting trial for the murder of Kates mentor, claims she was framed by Dicksons syndicate, Kate reluctantly agrees to help in the hope of finding answers.Meanwhile, DI Emma Donaldson finds herself on the hunt for a double murderera man who incapacitates his victims with a powerful narcotic called Devils Breath. Desperate to measure up to her role-model boss, Emma finds herself hurled into the deep end in more ways than oneWhile Kates grip on reality wavers and the syndicate closes in, and with the mystery killer taking a special interest in Emma, could this be the case that defeats both detectives?