Newly promoted to the rank of detective superintendent in the elite Scottish crime squad, Colin Thane gets his first case when a hit-and-run victim is identified as being a top-end errand boy in the European drug scene. Some three million pounds worth of amphetamines have been manufactured in Scotland for shipment to the continent.Thane's assignment: find out where exactly the drugs are being made. He traces the operation to a network of whisky distilleries in the Highlands - and now the going gets tough. Furthermore, Thane is handicapped for he is without the help of his old colleague Phil Moss. For this case he has a new partner, a rookie named Francey Dunbar, and Francey just doesn't come up to the standards of the old school... Praise for Bill Knox: 'The expertise is interesting, the invention good and the writing literate and lively.' Sunday Times 'His plotting is impeccable... and he can build his books to a relentless climax.' New York Times Book Review 'Sound technical details... Thrills without frills.' Sunday Telegraph 'Always a thoroughly reliable, good read' The Times