For years drug baron Ralph Ember has run his crooked enterprises peacefully enough alongside those of his rival, Mansel Shale. Their empires have been tolerated by Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles as a way of keeping violence off the streets. But are things changing? Karl Marx's bleak theory that all capitalists--including drug tycoons--lust for monopoly seems to be coming true. Do Ember and Shale long for sole control of the trade and the...
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