Synopsis

DCI Meadows and DC Skase were incandescent with rage when PC Jim Carver appeared in court in a state of intoxication, his testimony proving so unreliable that the judge dismissed the case. As his colleagues began to grasp the depth of Carver's troubles, Inspector Monroe assigned him a seemingly simple task: escorting a convoy of seized drugs to a Home Office depot for destruction. While enjoying a clandestine drink with depot floorman Vernon Liggett, Carver inadvertently revealed the convoy’s de