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Terrible Choices
by Calum Kerr
Chief Superintendent Jackie Starling is a ruthless, ambitious, senior officer in the UK National Crime Agency. Tasked with closing down the “County Lines” drug dealers she is determined to get a result; whatever it takes.
Catching and convicting the dealers is easy enough; most of them are children. But these results are temporary and the young criminals are replaced within days. Starling needs a different strategy and so faces a choice: Stay within the rules and chip away at the foot soldiers or kill the bosses? She decides to go for the bosses.
She knows someone capable of carrying out the tasks ahead and she has the power to persuade him to deliver. But Starling has no idea what they will be up against or the prospect of a horrifying death that she will be facing.
“County Lines” is the UK distribution model that involves urban gangs expanding their markets for crack cocaine and heroin into smaller towns by setting up phone lines through which they sell the Class A drugs.
The Terrible People Series
Calum has worked in the New York and London financial markets including twenty years with KPMG and EY – two of the “Big Four” global accountancy firms.
He frequently presents at industry conferences, contributes regular articles to the press and is a highly-respected commentator on the issues facing the UK financial services market. “Dirty Money - Terrible People” is his first work of fiction. The second book in the series will be published in 2021.
Calum lives in West London and enjoys wining, dining, running and writing. He is particularly interested in writing about today’s UK baby boomers and what he describes as the “Seventy is the new Seventeen” phenomenon. This cohort of consumers is drinking more than previous generations, using more hard and soft drugs, being diagnosed with more sexually transmitted diseases, enjoying life more and living that life much longer. 25% have assets in excess of a million pounds.
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