The Dragon Man

Introducing a compelling new crime series from the author of the internationally acclaimed Wyatt thrillers...He came upon her about halfway along the highway. A solitary street light cast a cone of dirty yellow light over the telephone box and the young woman inside it. He slowed to a walking pace. She was the loneliest figure at the loneliest spot on the earth. World's end. Amen. He accelerated away. He turned around at the next intersection. Came back...It's December, and the police of the sleepy Peninsula towns are preparing for the general summer madness -- beach houses broken into; New Year's Eve celebrations; joyriding kids...But this time there's a killer at work on the Old Peninsula Highway. And someone's torching houses and cars. For Detective Inspector Hal Challis - steering a delicate course between the demands of the media, expedient colleagues, a troubled past and his beloved Dragon Rapide - the Peninsula, his port in a storm, will never be the same again.