n nAfter a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under excruciating heat and chief inspector Frank Stave is confronted with a new case. n nIn the ruins of a shipyard, the corpse of a boy is found and Staves hunt for the killer leads him into the world of wolf children: orphaned children who have fled from the Occupied Eastern Territories and are now united in gangs. n nWhen two more bodies are discovered, Stave is under increasing pressure as he struggles to keep his personal life together, too.n