In the freezing snow, an old friend turns up at Frank Doy’s door. Her son, Tom, is in desperate need of help.

He ran over the son of a gangland boss in a drink-driving incident. Now the gangster wants Tom dead.

Frank can’t refuse. Tom is in mortal danger.

Frank takes his charge to an isolated cottage in wintry Northumberland, but trouble soon follows.

Now they’re snowed in and under siege.

Frank starts to realize that there may be more to the story.

Was the boy’s death really an accident?

In a breathtaking finale on a sinking ship on the River Tees, Frank must risk everything to save Tom and his parents.

Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Neil Lancaster and Michael Grant.

MEET FRANK DOY, a quick-thinking, fast-talking security consultant turned private investigator. He has a talent for finding himself in the seediest corners of the most dangerous cities in Europe. He doesn’t go looking for trouble. He lives in a converted miner’s cottage on an isolated stretch of the Cleveland coast. But he never backs down from a fight and he never turns away those who are desperate. So trouble finds him.