On a freezing October morning Detective Inspector Frank Keane is called to the scene of a crime on Liverpool's shoreline. The body of what looks like a man brutally tortured & burned has been tied to a pole on the beach. With very little evidence to go on Keane & his partner DS Emily Harris rely on their gut feeling that this murder is gang-related & their investigation takes them once again into the murky underworld of organised crime. Over in Australia ex-Liverpool Police detective Menno Koopman
- Frank's former boss
- is enjoying his retirement. He has no plans to ever return to England but when the body on the beach turns out to be his son Stevie
- whom he only ever met once as a baby
- he knows he has to go back & seek justice for his horrific murder. But there's a fine line between justice & revenge...