3St. Pauls, Bristol, 1970: A new decade, and JT Ellington has stepped away from the private-eye game to scratch a living, respectable at last. Still his nights are full of guilt and ghosts no prayers will banish - but it's not until the past comes calling in the unwelcome form of Superintendent Fletcher that his resolve is truly tested. Fletcher has a job for JT. A young man, Nikhil Suresh, has disappeared just days before his wedding. Now rumours abound and his family is distraught. With blood money in his pocket, JT is plunged into a demi-monde of vice, violence and passion. An extraordinary, malevolent enemy is intent on destroying him. Seeking survival and redemption, JT must play as dirty and dangerous as those who want him dead.