The Untouchable

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444760394 ISBN 13: 9781444760392

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

"The finest thriller writer in the world today." SUNDAY TELEGRAPH In London, Albert William Pacher, known as Mister, is master of all he surveys. His core business is heroine, bought in from the Turks in Green Lanes and distributed around the capital. After yet another police case against him collapses, he decides to travel to Sarajevo to expand his empire further - but he is followed by Home Office archivist Joey Cann, who is determined to find a way to bring Packer to justice. In the war-torn and dismal surroundings of Sarajevo, where law and order are administered by gangster warlords, Packer attempts to gain a foothold in new territory. Meanwhile, Joey chips away, uncovering more every day, until he has sufficient momentum to confront him driectly...

From the Inside Flap:

Albert William Packer is the supreme baron of London crime. He rules his manor with a cruel, ruthless fist. To those around him, on whatever side of the law, he is the Untouchable.

When another criminal case against him collapses, Packer turns his attention to expanding his heroin empire abroad. Where better to cut out the middle man than at the historic smuggling crossroads of Europe, the Balkans? New men and women are drafted into Customs & Excise unit dedicated to convicting Packer. Only one from the old team survives: the most junior, Joey Cann, retained solely for his obsessional knowledge of the man who calls himself 'Mister'. When Packer leaves for Sarajevo, it is inevitable that Cann be sent after him for 'intrusive surveillance'. The brief: to bring back the evidence that will finally nail Packer to the wall, whatever it takes. In London, it would have been no contest. But here on the war-torn streets of a city where justice is enforced by gangster warlords, Packer is far from home and from what he knows. Here, who will be the Untouchable, who will walk away?

From the Back Cover:

“The finest thriller writer in the world today.” -- Daily Telegraph

“A clever, informed and worldly cynical story about arrogance, obsession and tragedy.” -- The Times