Burn In Heaven

Maltese-born Detective Chief Inspector Tekka Stanford walks the hot summer streets of the City of London. If he fails to solve a strange crime, a new form of terrorism will bring the mightiest financial institution to its knees. Eight top financiers have died in bizarre circumstances, each one found in a state of ecstatic bliss. He meets Detective Sergeant John Harriot, working in the oldest police station in the world, on the banks of the River Thames. Working together they become friends. Austerity riots have caused a ban on massed gatherings, subverted by the Educators, who transfer news impartially, face to face. Tekka's wife Eve, gets caught in the middle of a spectacular demonstration outside the Bank of England. She is guided to safety by a mysterious woman with a fixation on the dragon statues that surround the City. Budget cuts and part privatisation of the police force have led to security being under the rule of an algorithm called Quex. Nothing is what it seems. Increasingly struggling to keep a grip on his sanity, Tekka discovers a mystery of his own, and is in a race to solve it before he too becomes one of the 'disappeared'. Russian dolls, hidden rivers, drones and dragons, a hallucinatory mix that sets London on fire.