What do you do when your son of 18, whom you haven't actually met before, asks for help? If you're a Private Investigator then of course you help. But Sam Dyke finds that his son's missing girlfriend was caught up in a sleazy world of corruption and violence, centering around the Ginger Twins - monstrous criminals who extend their crooked web from Liverpool to Manchester and all stops in between ... And Sam is now on their hit list. The case comes to a violent end while Sam is being pursued by the Twins, and he’s left wondering about the private lies told by nearly everyone involved – told either to others, or to themselves.