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When a teenager is involved in a hit-and-run accident after taking Ecstasy at a local nightclub, The Carib, his father wants to know who supplied him with the tablets. Faced with silence from the boy’s friends, as well as growing tension between the club’s owners and the predominantly Muslim community who want to see it shut down, DCI Michael Thackeray’s enquiries are slow to progress.

Thackeray’s girlfriend, reporter Laura Ackroyd, is also investigating the drug problem in Bradfield. A young boy has died in a fall from a tower block on notorious housing estate, The Heights. The police claim it is the result of a heroin overdose, but his friends claim otherwise…