The criminal underworld clashes head on with the forces of law and order in this warts and all account of greed, vice, drugs and violence.
in a police safe house in peaceful North Wales, Boris the Orange, informant and one-time translator for a criminal prostitution ring, is in hiding with his detective handler. But then an intercepted phone call blows the lid off their secret location. Within hours, the safe house is raided, the detective murdered and the informant kidnapped. Soon afterwards, Boris's tortured corpse is found in a nearby canal, manacled at the neck.
Within the force, the number of unlucky and mysterious deaths among the ranks of CID is growing steadily. Coincidence is no longer a credible reason. Could someone close to one of the officers be a suspect? Someone who, while on the surface appears calm and harmless, hides a dark, disturbed past...