Dubai is the City of Gold.
For most people, that means luxury hotels, superyachts, sunshine and shopping.
For Interpol detective Zoya Zozulya, it means a dead tourist, a missing British woman and the reemergence from her past of a ruthless organised crime syndicate.
Six months ago, red-haired Maya Malone died after falling from a Dubai skyscraper. Her death was written off as a tragic holiday accident.
Now Julie Jenkins, a young British influencer, has disappeared.
Zoya is determined to find Julie before history repeats itself. But her investigation soon uncovers a sinister network trafficking vulnerable women across borders—and someone at the centre of it who has a very particular obsession.
With her long-suffering partner Robin Rutherford at her side and an unlikely army of Irregulars recruited from Dubai's migrant communities, Zoya follows the trail from the city's glittering penthouses to its darkest corners.
Then the bullets start flying.
Because Zoya isn't just looking for a missing woman anymore.
She's hunting a fugitive gangster, challenging corrupt officials, going up against the CIA, and closing in on interlinked criminal empires protected by money, politics and violence.
And in the City of Gold, some people will do anything to keep their secrets buried.
Fast, dangerous and darkly funny, The City of Gold is a gripping Zoya Zozulya thriller about obsession, trafficking, corruption—and one detective who refuses to play by the rules.
