The criminals in a northern English city are asking for it. A feeble law enforcement establishment is being run ragged. The family of a hospital pathologist, Jack Preston, is killed by a drunken criminal driving the wrong way up a motorway exit. The culprit, Darren Darnell, receives a derisory sentence because the trial judge makes an excuse for him Hard line Detective Hugh Mason, whose own career is on the skids, senses that Jack Preston isn't the...