Naomi Anstruther''s undercover operation among the drug gangs - planned carefully by Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur - has ended in a bloody shoot-out. Naomi has escaped harm, but her lovers Donald McWater and Lyndon Evans are dead.

Now the biggest danger to Naomi is a young woman named Esme, who believes that she and Naomi should personally avenge their deaths.

''A comic novel of a high order . . . essential reading'' Observer

Naomi Anstruther''s undercover operation among the drug gangs - planned carefully by Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur - has ended in a bloody shoot-out. Naomi has escaped harm, but her lovers Donald McWater and Lyndon Evans are dead.

Now the biggest danger to Naomi is a young woman named Esme, who believes that she and Naomi should personally avenge their deaths.

''A comic novel of a high order . . . essential reading'' Observer