NOWHERE SAFE (A LEE COB NOVEL Book 2)

The first cadaver was only the beginning. As Detective Sergeant Lee Cob began digging deeper into the machinations of a section of society closed to the vast majority of the population, he would work both body and mind into a state of near exhaustion.
When DCI Barnes dropped the file folder on the desk, Cob had no idea the contents would test not only his skills as a police officer, but also his honesty, temperament and moral fibre.
In an effort to uncover the killer, he began searching for a way through the wall of silence surrounding a case of kidnap and murder reaching into the very heart of the British class system.
Throughout his twenty-two years on the force, Cob could not remember an investigation as dangerous as this one. Shady characters following orders from people he had never met wanted him dead. Colleagues, knowing he was a man who took chances, believed he had at last taken one too many. Others less friendly pointed the finger, wondering if he had “gone rogue”, and slowly word climbed the grapevine. “Cob was on the take”.
Fighting his way through a sea of lies and innuendos, Cob pitched himself against enemies so far above his pay grade each enquiry felt as if he was wading through a river of treacle. He finally decided the only people he could trust were the ones most people ignored – the twilight people of Greater Manchester. Vagrants, who walked the streets, lived anywhere they could lay their heads or share the warmth of a fire. He often used these individuals, who kept their own council, saw what they saw and traded the information to Cob for his always over-generous hand outs. These were the people he would use against the dark forces calling for his blood.
Cob was a courageous man with complete confidence in his own abilities, but after sampling the vehement hostility ranged against him he began wondering if this poison challis wasn’t one step too far.