Daniel Connell

When dying millionaire William Gove asks Daniel Connell to execute his will, Daniel has no idea what he's getting himself into. Gove has chosen 10 random names from the phone book as the recipients of his fortune. When he dies, Daniel sets out to track them down. But a chance remark by one-that perhaps this is God's way of compensating for her daughter's disappearance-gives him pause. Another mention of a missing person, and Daniel suspects there may be something darker at work. His discoveries set him on a lethal trajectory with a powerful family who believe themselves to be above the law.

Tackling the Essex underworld takes nerve. Is hard-bitten lawyer Daniel Connell up to the job? A mother's nightmare: her children taken from her because of unexplained injuries all over their bodies. Who will believe her story? When lawyer Daniel Connell receives a visit from his trouble-making old flame Victoria pleading for his help, he looks for any excuse not to get involved. But no one else believes her pleas of innocence and Daniel can see she is terrified. As he enters Victoria's life once more, Daniel's search for truth leads from the dark heart of Essex to the mountains of Afghanistan, and a terrifying world where monsters are real-and nothing is sacred.