As the world goes about its daily business, criminals and cops engage in a deadly battle of wits. This incisive book delves intriguingly into the crimes that police have to deal with day after day. Murderers, hitmen, kidnappers, drug dealers - they all feature in this collection of true crime stories that come to you straight from the streets. Take the drug dealer who walked out of a restaurant bragging that he's killed a man with his bare-hands - unaware that his fellow diner was an undercover policeman. Or the young mother, whose death was written of as suicide, but further investigation proved to be something much more sinister...