Detective Superintendent Mike Prosser knows East London thug, Big Dave Tyson was responsible for his WPC daughter's horrific death; but he can't prove it. After two years of trauma Mike is beginning to function as a copper again and his brain is on the case. But since Tyson could afford to pay someone else to do his killing he's always just out of reach of the law and whenever they do get within touching distance of putting him away, his brilliant, charismatic lawyer, Marcus Swift always finds a way to slide him from their grasp. Until fate takes a hand. There's sex too. There's Tyson's Playboy Centrefold wife, Francine and a beautiful French prosecutor called Dominique Harcourt (Miss Hardcore to Mike Prosser). They make things happen.