“The love of his life, the woman by whom he’d been scorned, was dead. She had been brutally murdered, and Hugo’s former colleagues, the men and women he had shed blood, sweat and tears for, were all in agreement on who’d done it, their prime suspect: Hugo himself. As if that wasn’t enough, mere minutes after being released from custody, Hugo was accosted and almost killed by a pair of hit men, only just surviving thanks to the quick thinking and skill of an old, estranged ally.

Now, Hugo’s only hope is to solve this mystery for himself, before he is either arrested for murder or the assassins gunning for him put him in the ground. Without a clue as to who, why, or what is going on, Hugo’s only option is to clear his name, avenge his lover and uncover the truth, and he finds himself in need of help from the last person in the world he wants to see, and yet the only friend he still has in a dark and dangerous city.”