On the dark web, nobody can hear you scream

Inside a London art gallery, a young couple are brutally murdered in a chilling tableau: their bodies dismembered, the word “liar” visibly inscribed on the woman’s chest.

But how do you catch a killer who hides behind a screen?

Dead men can’t speak.

When Danny Cipriano’s body is discovered buried in a concrete tomb at the London Olympic Stadium, one thing becomes clear: the former leader of The Crimsons knew too much.

And somebody wanted him silenced.

For good.

A gangland boss. A fiery crucifixion. A teenager who caught it all on camera.

Henry Matheson owns the drug trade in East London. To his competitors, he’s feared. To his customers, he’s God. To the police, he’s untouchable.

But when the smouldering remains of Henry’s closest competitor are discovered dangling from a lamppost in the middle of his estate, one man decides to take him on: Jake Tanner.

But he can’t do it alone. And with The Cabal’s clandestine network of corrupt officers threatening him and his family at every turn, Jake doesn’t know who to trust.

A detective in financial ruin
A deadly human trafficking network
One man orchestrating it all

Months have passed since Henry Matheson, one of east London’s most dangerous criminals, was arrested. Since then DC Jake Tanner and the team at Stratford CID have been making sure the case is watertight.

But when a sudden and disastrous fraudulent attack decimates Jake’s personal finances, he is propelled into the depths of a dark and dangerous underworld, where few resurface.

Sometimes the darkest evils hide in plain sight

The Cabal is dead, his corrupt empire decimated.

But when Rupert Haversham, lawyer to the city’s criminal underworld, is found brutally murdered in his London home, it becomes apparent to Jake Tanner that’s no longer the case.

The Cabal is very much alive. Pulling the strings. Disposing of those closest to the truth.

Including Jake.