A young Middle Eastern boy is dead - his body stuffed in a wheelie bin on the East Side Estate. Detective Superintendent Banks and his team are called to investigate this case whose profile increases even further when they realise he was stabbed elsewhere and dumped. Who is the boy and where did he come from? Then a heroin addict is found dead of an overdose in an area of town scheduled for redevelopment as a shopping centre and while trying not to be distracted by his concern for his friend Zelda's increasingly dangerous situation Banks discovers a connection with a shady property developer. Finding a solution to the case may come at a terrible cost…

Part of the Inspector Banks series.