DI Tommy Stark is your worst nightmare: a narcissistic misogynist with a five-year career plan that involves misfortune befalling most of his colleagues. Stark is recently transferred to Serious Crime from Vice and has the little black book of dodgy contacts to prove it. Far from conventional, Stark's methods of policing frequently involve operating outside of the law and he gets a kick out of making people uneasy. When Toal announces his retirement, Stark wants the job but is he driven by ambition or a desire to stop his nemesis, Amanda Drummond, getting the role? Stark vehemently believes Drummond's by-the-book approach is a danger to the future of policing, so when he gets some dirt on her, he will stop at nothing to make it stick.
