''The best discovery I''ve come across in a long time'' Michael Connelly

When the beautiful woman you''ve longed for since boyhood calls and asks you to find her missing sister, what do you do? If you are Isaiah Quintabe - IQ to his friends - you''ll do everything you can. The girl, an erratic DJ and gambling addict, has gone missing in Las Vegas - with a frightening loan shark, Chinese Triad gangsters, and her own deadbeat boyfriend hot on her tail. But IQ''s search takes an unexpected turn when he meets a criminal mastermind who knows something about the murky circumstances surrounding his own brother''s death . . .

''Witty and confident, with a bustling plot, this is a worthy follow-up to Ide''s excellent debut'' Guardian