King of Swords -1st UK Edition/1st Impression

the long version

"When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami's Primate Park, it looks like another routine - if slightly bizarre - investigation. Until two things turn up: the victim's family, slaughtered: and a partly digested tarot card in the dead man's stomach. The King of Swords." "An increasingly bloody trail leads Max and Joe first to a sinister fortune teller and her scheming pimp son, then to the infamous Solomon Boukman. Few have ever met the most feared criminal in Miami, but rumours abound of a forked tongue, voodoo ceremonies and friends in very high places." "Against a backdrop of black magic and police corruption, Max and Joe must distinguish the good guys from the bad - and track down some answers." "What is the significance of the King of Swords? What makes those who have swallowed the card go on a killing spree just before they die? And can Max find out the truth about Solomon Boukman, before death's shadow reaches his own front door ...?"--BOOK JACKET.