Top Banana Author:Bill James Another high-suspense tale by the writer whose dialogue "comes off the page like electricity" ([London] Sunday Times). It was in all the papers. Mandy Walsh had been gunned down in the street, caught in the crossfire between two rival drug gangs. Mandy was a drug runner: she was also just thirteen years old. For shattered idealist Chief Constabl... more »e Mark Lane, the only solution to this evil is to infiltrate the drug gangs. His sardonic assistant chief, Desmond Iles, has another solution: let the gangland police itself in return for a few "favors." And Mansel Shale, drug kingpin, wants nothing more than a working arrangement with the police-anything that will make him top banana in his dark, perilous world. Meantime, Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur looks a little harder into Mandy's death and finds the game getting even darker. There was, it seems, a third shooter. One targeting Mandy.« less