The Professionals

An Israeli minister is kidnapped and held hostage at a house in outer London. A photograph offers clues to his location, and a double-decker bus proves an effective, if unconventional, observation platform – despite Bodie’s obvious disapproval.

A bomb detonates in a restaurant where Bodie is dining with his girlfriend, badly injuring her and killing others. The intended victim was accountant Brian Forrest; Bodie, conducting an unauthorised investigation, is determined to find out why.

Chief Constable Green is proud of his low crime figures, but his true aim becomes clearer when the director of a gay youth counselling centre asks Cowley for help amid a campaign of intimidation – and even Bodie and Doyle fall prey to bully-boy tactics.

Barry Martin, an affable, much-respected veteran and co-founder of CI5, continues to train Bodie and Doyle in unarmed combat techniques. But Martin has turned rogue, and the lads are now forced to track down their highly skilled former mentor.

Corruption in the building trade comes under the spotlight, and in particular the activities of government contractor Temple-Blake Ltd – a company with numerous skeletons in their closet, and an accountant who has kept records of them all...

Thomas Darby, a British spy who defected many years previously, returns to England to live out the rest of his days. Cowley knows Darby has valuable information on other double agents, but someone wants to silence him by whatever means necessary.