The Take Av Graham Hurley

<P><B>A missing doctor with a long list of aggrieved patients leads to a complicated case for DI Faraday. From the author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRAD</B><br><br>DI Joe Faraday''s Management Assistant, Vanessa Parry, is dead, killed in a head-on car smash. Her funeral is a bitter end to another grim week in the front line of the ongoing war against Portsmouth''s surging crime wave. <br><br>And now the seemingly untouchable DC Paul Winter, master of the scam, has been hurt in a way he could never have imagined: his wife has cancer. It''s inoperable and she has barely three months to live. Paul Winter has only one instinct - to lash out. <br><br>But there''s precious little time for grief on a Portsmouth CID squad. A disgraced gynaecologist is missing and his caseload of maimed women is a murder-suspect list from hell. It all adds up to an impossible workload, and that''s without the suits and the politicians conspiring to make it even harder...</P>