Ghost Town

Ghost Town was my first Jack Talbot story.

The town of Southampton is falling into depravity.

Prostitution and human slavery is on the upturn, citizens are

being gunned down in the street, and Detective Inspector

Jack Talbot doesn't have enough manpower to effectively

deal with it.

Jack is pulled away from a meeting with a prospective

informant regarding the import of prostitutes, to have to deal

with a particularly violent murder involving a child. Leaving

his team to finish up he returns to try and gather more

information regarding the prostitution ring and befriends a

young working girl.

He realises that the girl, Rose Mortimer only a prostitute out

of laziness, has skills which could help him combat both his

gun crime and prostitution problems, and he is just desperate

enough to use them.

This case takes he and Rose on a roller-coaster ride through

the seedier side of Europe, as he tracks the supply of

weapons to Southampton's underworld. To bring both the

prostitution ring and the gun crime to a successful conclusion

Jack finds himself dealing with both politics and infighting

within the Police system itself, and finds that the corruption

leads him to places within his own organisation for which he

is unprepared.