Courier Pink gives Sharkey a chance to make some money by bringing Lebanon hashish into Britain. Before he can hand it to Cetti, police raid his home, leaving Sharkey in possession of half a million pounds' worth of heroin.

Criminals Dickie Tufnell and Harry Kemp are shot dead in a gangland hit. Hackett learns that the latter had been forced into the robbery by a pair of revolutionaries looking to raise funds.

Bids are being placed for a lucrative city development building project but is there an element of police corruption connected to one of them?

A number of art shops have been broken into with paintings stolen to order. Bonney discovers a link to a man called Abbo and curator Jenny Wilder, who has exported paintings from fourteen of the galleries.