Bodie – on leave with a hand injury – and his girlfriend, Julia, encounter a German terrorist gang. Capturing one of the gang, he and Julia take refuge in a vicarage, but find themselves outnumbered and trapped when all communications are cut off.

The death-bed confession of a former intelligence chief prompts the re-opening of an old corruption case. It becomes clear that the death of a key witness was not suicide, and the police officers responsible for her death are themselves now marked.

Doyle is forced to relive a shoot-out which claimed the life of a fellow police officer and friend. Career criminal Bill Haydon was convicted of the murders but, six years on, his daughter Jill claims to have fresh evidence that will exonerate him.

A CI5 agent trailing a drugs gang based in a bowling alley uncovers ‘something bigger’ than drugs, but is murdered before passing on further details. When Bodie and Doyle stake out the venue they find a man fatally poisoned – and uncover a sinister extremist plot.

Cowley prevents the shooting of former US Secretary of State Dr Harbinger at an international conference. The real target, however, is Cowley – and his would-be killer uses a millionaire’s daughter as leverage in order to extract information on his whereabouts.

Evangelist and popular politician Annie Irvine is in the UK after an attempt on her life in Chicago, and Cowley is taking a special interest in her safety. With another attack apparently imminent, a right-wing antagonist emerges as an obvious suspect.