After losing his wife to cancer, Nicks, a broken man, tries to drink himself to death but a mysterious encounter one evening sets his life on a completely unexpected path. When DCI Thurstan Baddeley takes over at the lively and resourceful murder squad all hell seems to break loose in and around the city of Liverpool. A local crime lord is gunned down in a quiet backstreet and a string of execution-style killings follow. However, the hidden clues found along the way by the investigators all point to something much bigger than organised crime.M.F