City of Sins Daniel Blake 9780007384501 [USED COPY]

The pulse-pounding new thriller featuring FBI agent Franco Patrese, in New Orleans on the hunt for a warped serial killer as Hurricane Katrina threatens the city.

New Orleans, Summer 2005: New FBI agent Franco Patrese is intrigued when the attractive PA to the city's richest man requests a secret meeting. She has information regarding an unthinkable conspiracy, and will trust no-one else.

The next day she's dead - the victim of a bizarre ritual murder - and Patrese finds himself drawn into the murkiest of underworlds, piecing together connections between the city's seediest players and her top officials.

Only two things remain certain - there are huge secrets hidden in these cesspools of corruption and crime, and some people will do anything to keep them that way.

And all the while, the city's apocalypse looms. Her name is Katrina, and she's taking aim...

Daniel Blake is the pseudonym of award-winning novelist and screenwriter Boris Starling. White Death is his seventh book, and he also created the BBC1 franchise 'Messiah' which ran for five series. He lives in Dorset with his wife and children.

• Stunning. A 'Chinatown' for the 21st century' - Charles Cumming, NY Times bestselling author of THE TRINITY SIX
• 'City of Sins starts with a tsunami and ends with a hurricane, and nothing in between slows it down. A smart, scary, and relentless storm overtaking a city held hostage by greed and disaster." - Andrew Gross, NYTimes bestselling author
• Daniel Blake makes New Orleans the setting for a story that's as hot, steamy and shot through with voodoo madness as the city itself. Highly recommended!" - Tom Cain, author of THE ACCIDENT MAN and DICTATOR