In a gripping race against time, DI Rick Castle must track down two dangerous suspects in Manchester amid the backdrop of the European migration crisis. As a hidden compartment in a lorry is unloaded near a disused supermarket and a prisoner escapes from Strangeways, Castle investigates the potential connection between these events. Recently demoted yet determined, his pursuit will lead to unforeseen consequences that change everything.
Manchester. DCI Rick Castle is inspecting his bees when his boss phones. A minor cannabis dealer has been reported missing. His father's a war hero. Rick flies to Nepal, and heads up the trail. Through villages of staring children and fluttering prayer-flags. Brilliant blue skies, and snow-capped mountains. He finds a dead body. Then a second. Nothing in this world was ever straightforward. Nothing. Finally, he puts himself in the firing line, and has a decision to make. Is it the right one? The moral one.
The second book in the critically acclaimed DCI Castle series. Against the rules, Manchester DCI Rick Castle removes a prisoner from Strangeways and returns to Nepal. His aim: to bring to justice his nemesis Hant Khetan, rumoured to be the next Osama Bin Laden. When the prisoner escapes, Rick and his small team must search for him along the paths of the Everest foothills. Trekking in the shadow of snow-capped mountains and through earthquake- flattened villages, Rick becomes increasingly desperate. If they can't find him, Rick can't even begin...