Last Days of the Purebloods

Halloween, 1981.
The fearsome pureblood terrorist, Tom Marvolo Riddle, vanishes in the destroyed house of newlywed sorcerers. The event launches an Auror investigation that soon becomes the largest in the institution's history, as agents uncover a trail leading to a clandestine arm of the Italian terror group the Companions of Alexander. Evidence points to an all but unknown criminal franchise at work in the U.K. within the strife-torn pureblood community.

The mystery deepens. Surveillance photos snapped secretly from vans and lookouts in York and Westminster show a cast of characters the experts cannot identify. What is in the cartons these Italians are loading into the trunks of their Mercedes? Who is trying to spirit millions of gold galleons out of the country and why? And where is the mountain of money coming from?

The Aurors have stumbled across a billion-dollar drug pipeline that is funneling tons of Turkish morphine base to French and Italian labs and heroin lace into food being served to muggleborns across the UK. Where bombings failed, addiction will succeed

This is the dramatic inside story of that historic case and the struggle of the British, American, Brazilian, French, and Italian Aurors to deal the purebloods a crippling blow.

The exploding case is assigned to an unlikely pair of agents: the intense, Milanese-born Salvatore Valois and the fun loving Kingsley Shacklebolt. Together with an expanding army of investigators in the UK and abroad, they follow a trail that leads from sidewalk pizzerias and pay phones in York, London, and Manchester, to bank vaults and hideouts in Manhattan, Manila, Zurich, Milan, Paris, Rio, Ankara, and Sarajevo.