Frozen contract
By: Bill Rogers
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: DCI Caton Manchester crime novels -- 7
Publisher: Caton Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [United Kingdom]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780956422071
Subjects: Tom Caton (Fictitious character); Fiction; Football players; Nigerians; Murder; Investigation; Police; Women forensic scientists; Nigérians; Romans, nouvelles; Meurtre; Enquêtes; Femmes spécialistes de la criminalistique
Description: When Premiership star Sunday Okowu-Bello is found dead, in chilling circumstances, DCI Tom Caton knows this case is going to be anything but straightforward. And with three security guards missing the last thing he needs is the newly appointed Commissioner of Police and Crime piling on the pressure. At first sight, the victim's predilection for easy sex and gambling provides both motive, and suspects. As Caton digs deeper he finds himself drawn into a bewildering nexus of gambling cartels, security firms, the victim's Nigerian sponsors, Far Right extremists, and Far East and Russian syndicates jostling for ownership of the club. When a second body is discovered in the Manchester Ship Canal Caton knows that the killing has only just begun. The National Crime Agency is waiting in the wings, and the clock is ticking ...