D/C Paul Winter has gone undercover in an attempt to infiltrate the inner circle of the city's premier drug's baron, Bazza McKenzie. Adrift in a world of easy money and brutally hard-won respect, Winter appears to be in his element. Worryingly so...But headquarters' concerns about Winter are soon supplanted by two high-profile Portsmouth murders. In the first, a property developer is shot dead with clinical efficiency, thus triggering Operation Billhook. Next, a government minister visiting the city is assassinated by two helmeted motorcyclists while his car is stuck in a rush-hour traffic. A second investigation is launched, Operation Polygon.D/I Faraday, Winter's erstwhile boss, is deeply involved in both enquiries. Working eighteen-hour days, with painstaking attention to detail, he begins to make progress - only to find himself suddenly sidelined from the mushrooming activities of Polygon. From now on, he must focus solely on the murder of the property developer.Exiled to an out-of-town incident room, with a reduced investigative squad, Faraday becomes slowly aware of a web of circumstantial evidence with profound implications for Billhook, for Polygon, and - most important of all - for the beleagured Paul Winter. The relationship between the two men has never been easy. But now the time has come to bury their differences.The Price Of Darkness is about individual loyalty and collective betrayal, about the personal limits beyond which most people refuse to go, and about the raw violence generated by a society that has lost its way. Read Less