When a good man... becomes a bad cop... but can’t remember why.
Following an attempt on his life, Detective Sergeant Martin Money wakes from a week-long coma with no memory of the previous three years. He quickly learns that corrupt practices got him demoted, violence caused his wife to divorce him, and his vices and anger drove his friends away one by one. On top of this, the West Yorkshire Police do not seem to care who tried to kill him, and he is offered a generous pay-out to retire.
But with a career lifeline offered by a former student of his, Martin takes up the case of a missing male prostitute, an investigation that skirts both their worlds, forcing him back into the run-down estates awash with narcotics, violence, and sex, temptations he must resist if he is to resume his life as the good man he remembers himself to be.
To stay out of jail, to punish whoever tried to kill him, and to earn his redemption, Martin attempts to unravel the circumstances of his assault and,more importantly, establish why everyone from his past appears to be lying at every turn.
Author A. D. Davies follows up his acclaimed debut page turner “His First His Second” with this gritty, fast paced crime thriller, charting the dark places a corrupt cop will go to, to chase a past that nobody wants him to recall.
