Hes an idealistic North London copper who has his eye on a career in the CID. In no time hes staking out a large Arab-owned suburban property where drugs, mayhem and gun-running are the order of the day.

Jake Parker also has his eye on the girls - Janice, Molly and Alice, to name a few. In or out of uniform, they seem to bring out the best in him.

But Jake is wounded during an armed arrest in Trinidad, and one of his relationships goes sour. Then South Force, the special police unit hes been drafted into to combat immigrant crime, fails to anticipate the London tube bombings of 2005.

As...