The dealer - Paul Kilduff

DS Ted Hammond enjoys a civilised life in Harrow Road Metropolitan Police Station solving petty crime and finding lost cats. Until the day that Alexander Soames' missing Volvo estate is found abaondoned in Stratford, East London. Finance Director of Provident Banking PLC, Soames had been spending a night on the town with a high class call girl celebrating the 1 million compensation he was about to receive on the takeover of Provident by British Commercial Bank PLC. Six days later, Soames' bloated body surfaces in the Thames at Greenwich. Ted begins the investigation into what two consenting adults got up to late one night in a townhouse on the Isle of Dogs, wholly unaware of the ultimate consequences this will have on the lives of so many influential wheelers and dealers in the City of London.