This classy thriller by Oxford writer J. Wallis Martin features Robbie McLaughlan, a Flying Squad officer with London's Metropolitan Police, who shoots and kills a robber during a bank raid.

His life starts to fall apart when the robber's family discover his identity and abduct his young son with the intention of luring McLaughlan to his death. McLaughlan has to turn for help to his ex-con father, the legendary Glaswegian "heavy" George McLaughlan.