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Crime statistics in the northern English port of Hull are exploding as members of a rival gang take over the local Vietnamese gang's cannabis industry and leave tortured victims in their wake. Stopping the violence and decreasing the crime statistics is a priority for DS Aector McAvoy's Serious and Organized Crime Unit. However, when he downloads the memory card of a cell phone found by the river onto his computer, McAvoy becomes drawn into the strange death of a young tattooed man. The young man was involved in the area's underground erotic scene, and McAvoy's intuition tells him that something is not right with his apparent suicide. When his superior officer is attacked by two Rottweilers and sidelined while questioning a suspect in the gang case, McAvoy takes the opportunity to do a little investigating of the tattooed man's death, discovering that he might not have been the killer's only victim.