Covert - Neville Blackwood

Covert - Neville Blackwood

Neville Blackwood

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  • Pages · 320 pages
  • Publication Date · 25/08/2026
  • Genre · Thriller / suspense
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In the shadows of 1990s London, untouchable crime boss Freddie Morgan rules by fear. Tasked with bringing him down, Detective Sergeant Mark Carter is seconded to a covert Met Police unit, whose aim is to infiltrate Morgan's heroin operation. Backed by a fraudster-turned-informant with everything to lose, Mark knows that one wrong move means exposure and certain death. But as the undercover sting tightens, he uncovers something far more dangerous: corruption within his own ranks. With the lines between law and crime beginning to blur, Mark is forced to confront a brutal question: who can he trust when even his own team may be compromised?Neville Blackwood is a former senior detective, whose career spanned more than thirty years investigating some of the UK's most dangerous criminals. Drawing on his firsthand experience with undercover operations, he delivers a tense, believable, and disturbingly real insight into covert policing.

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