When a man is found in the middle of Al Road in the early hours one Sunday
morning, stark naked and bleeding heavily from a wound, he is the latest
victim in a
series of violent attacks on men. Enquiries in the mean-street, Nottingham's
red-light district have brought investigations to a dead end.
Charlie Resnick is the man for the job. Am he hasn't enough to deal with, he
now must provide police protection for a celebrity annual crime convention an
author with very unpleasant 'fan' mail.
Chronically short-' as he is, it's a guessing game as to when Re? lack of
manpower will have fatal consequence "Harvey invokes a world whose citizens n
through corridors of treachery and hurt... I- readable ... and impishly
imagined'