Meet Jimmy Costello Quiet respectable God-fearing family man? Or thuggish street-fighter with a past full of dark secrets? Perhaps the answer is somewhere in between After Jimmy's wife dies the conflict inside him is too much & the violent assault he commits on a gangster forces him to leave London & his job with the police & disappear for a while Now he's back on what you might call a divine mission & to settle a few old scores too Through the eyes of his hard-boiled ex-cop James Green takes us on a thrilling journey from 1960s Kilburn through war-torn 1970s Africa to the modern streets of a London that seems to have cleaned up its act until you scratch the surface