The Shadow Line

Bede starts an affair with Petra, Peter Glickman's girlfriend; whilst Glickman himself, now posing as Paul Donnelly, a watch-maker in Dublin, lures Gatehouse to a showdown which both survive and, oddly back off. Glickman rings Gabriel, who learns that his dead partner Delaney was corrupt, but Patterson defends the amnesiac Gabriel's integrity. Glickman meets up with Bede. It transpires that Gatehouse had the money for the drugs in the transaction with Babur but Glickman failed to pay up. Meanwhile, Harris is killed and his young boyfriend Ratallack proposes to take over his deal with Bede.

Glickman meets Gabriel, telling him that Gatehouse will give him the answers he needs but to beware that Gatehouse will use his 'secrets' to hurt him. Gabriel assumes that this means his ex-mistress Alison and her son and, after visiting retired commander Penney, he mentions 'Counterpoint' as instructed by Glickman. Gabriel attempts and fails to get Allison to move to a hotel. After a scare, at Laura's ultrasound visit, the baby is confirmed to be healthy. On checking police evidence, Gabriel and Leah find the the heroin is being recycled by corrupt police into additional drug deals. Joseph moves forward with smuggling heroin in the alum lilies and even finds a new partner, Ratallack, to whom to sell. Meanwhile, the police are tipped off for a price to the alum lilies by an inside source trying to finance his own retirement. On Gabriel's last scan, the doctor tells him he believes his memory is returning. Commander Kokar gets a directive from his boss to frame Gabriel in murder/suicide in Gabriel's ex-mistress' apartment.

Bede is told that Harvey Wratten owed a million pounds to Turkish drugs importer for a lost delivery and proposes a new deal to the Turk,smuggling drugs into the country in Arum lilies,after which he plans to quit. Gabriel believes Harvey knew his killer as he had wound his car window down to speak to him. He and his colleague Honey look for the car driver,petty crook Andy Dixon,who has gone on the run,but Jay Wratten is also on his trail,threatening his family,as is a mysterious man called Gatehouse. After the police track Andy's phone when he calls his mother up Gabriel and Wratten locate him to a park but somehow Gatehouse gets to him first and they drive away together.