The fifth and thrilling instalment in Alan Carter's Cate Kwong crime series. When Detective Cato Kwong is called to investigate the death of a retiree found murdered in his suburban Australian home, the details are gruesome - the body has been hacked to pieces. Following the trail of clues, the case will take Cato to Timor-Leste to uncover the truth behind this violent crime with some unexpected twists. Except this time, he's not alone. There, he reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Rory Driscoll who, in Cato's experience, has always occupied a hazy moral terrain. Resourceful, multilingual, and hard as nails, Rory has been Canberra's go-to guy when things get sticky in the Asia-Pacific. Now Rory wants out. But first he's needed to chaperone a motley group of whistleblowers with a price on their heads.

And there's one on his, too.