A hit-and-run victim is identified as a top-line errand boy in the European drug scene...and Colin Thane gets his first assignment after his promotion to detective superintendent in the elite Scottish Crime Squad. Somewhere in Scotland millions of amphetamines are being manufactured for shipment to the Continent. But where? Thane traces the operation to a remote network of Highland whisky distilleries, but when the going gets tough, the new superintendent realises just how much he misses his old colleague, Phil Moss. As he stalks death in the wild Scottish Highlands, Colin Thane needs more backup than he is getting to trap the dangerous criminals one step ahead...