‘The godfather of Australian crime fiction.’

Cliff Hardy goes to Leichhardt gym proprietor Wesley Scott for a ‘fitness assessment’ and is soon trying to get his son Clinton - known as The Black Prince - back on the rails. A sports star in the making and destined for the top, Clinton is obsessed with tracking down the dealer who sold his girlfriend the steroids that led to her death.

Hardy has to find Clinton before he ends up on a murder charge - the trail leads him up to North Queensland and into the shadowy world of illegal boxing.