Operation WetFish Book 5: A Necessary Evil

Police incompetence, witness intimidation, expensive lawyers. There are many reasons the guilty walk free of court. For Operation WetFish, a legal and entirely unorthodox department of the London police, the courts never have the final say. Frame-ups, alerting rival gangs or simply making the bad guys disappear . . . Operation WetFish employs a variety of methods to clean up the mistakes of the courts.

Charles Baronaire lives for the thrill of making the streets safe. But Baronaire has other things on his mind. He’s stronger, faster, more agile than ordinary human beings; he can focus his mind to alter people’s perceptions, can establish command over nature’s baser creatures. And he has an insatiable appetite for human blood.

When a cleaning lady witnesses a WetFish officer executing her employer, Baronaire is set the task of silencing her. Tagging along is the department’s newest recruit, Detective Sue Lin. Lin’s conscience is getting in the way of Baronaire’s work, for killing villains is one thing, but silencing civilians is not something Lin is prepared to do. But Baronaire is already having a bad day, and having to deal with a squeamish colleague is only making things worse. As the hunt continues, Baronaire begins to wonder whether it might not be such a bad idea were Detective Lin to also disappear before the night is through.