Untouchable - Hardcover

Seymour, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593046501 ISBN 13: 9780593046500

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2001

Synopsis

In London Albert William Packer, known as Mister, is master of all he surveys. He rules the manor with an iron fist - transgression is punished savagely, and moonlighting is rooted out and dealt with without hesitation. For twenty years, Packer has had it all his own way - the police and intelligence services have targeted him but have yet to get close to any sort of effective prosecution. After the collapse of the most recent National Crime Squad case against him through the intervention of his lawyer, Henry Arbuthnot, known as the Eagle, Packer sets out to broaden his horizons. His core business is heroin, bought from the Turks in Green Lanes and distributed around the capital. But he wants to cut out the middle man and in order to do so must travel to Sarajevo to parlay with the middle man where he hopes to negotiate safe transit through the black market crossroads that is the former Yugosalvia. But there is one survivor of the latest Home Office debacle, an archivist called Joey Cann who is determined to bring Packer to justice and follows him and his entourage to Sarajevo to glean what he can from the visit and to undermine whatever operation Packer is in the process of set

About this title

About the Author

Once a reporter for Independent Television News, Gerald Seymour has lived in the West Country for several years. His bestselling novels include, among others, Harry's Game, The Glory Boys, Red Fox, Field of Blood, The Heart of Danger, Killing Ground, The Waiting Time, A Line in the Sand, Holding the Zero, The Untouchable and most recently, Traitor's Kiss.

From the Back Cover

Albert William Packer is the supreme baron of London crime. He rules his manor with a cruel, ruthless fist. To those around him, on whatever side of the law, he is the Untouchable.

Another case against him in tatters, Packer walks free from the Old Bailey. Yet again he and his solicitor have outsmarted the Customs & Excise unit tasked to take him down. Now bored with his own success, Packer sets out to expand his empire abroad. His core business in heroin, bought from the Turks in North London's Green Lanes. Where better to cut out the middleman than at the historic smuggling crossroads of Europe, the Balkans?

Now men and women are drafted into Custom House dedicated to convicting Packer. Only one member of the old team survives: the most junior, Joey Cann, retained soley for his obsessional knowledge of the man who calls himself 'Mister'. When Packer leaves for Sarajevo, it is inevitable that Cann be sent after him for 'intrusive surveillance'. The brief: to bring back the evidence that will finally nail Packer to the wall.

In London, it would have been no contest. But here on the war-torn, dismal streets of a city where justice is enforced by gangster warlords, Packer is far from home and from what he knows. Here, who will be the Untouchable? Who will walk away?

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593046501
• ISBN 13: 9780593046500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448