Gideon's Force — John Creasey

Built with such hope, the Wellesley Estate has descended into a place of meaningless violence that the police cannot control. Fear of rape, muggings, arson, and even murder has led some of its residents to form their own vigilante group.

Elsewhere in London, Dino Orsini is working with the police to help solve the murder of his two brothers, who were slain in what appears to be gang-land killings. And across the city, a Czech clairvoyant has been employed in tracing the kidnapped wife of a leading biscuit manufacturer, Thomas Cargill. Commander George Gideon must use all his faculties to uphold justice in an increasingly lawless London and a characteristically thrilling story.