Karen Moir ran away from home in Edinburgh when she was just sixteen; all her father, Detective Inspector Henry Moir, knows is that she was headed for London. Following a trail of warring drug dealers, child prostitution and born-again Christian gangsters, the search for Karen Moir becomes an increasingly dangerous trawl through London's underworld. And it soon becomes clear that there are others who want Karen found--the only difference being that they don t care whether she's dead or alive."