After dumping his girlfriend solicitor Harry Venn is approached by high-powered advocate Gina Hawkes to find Joe Collins,who she claims can prove the innocence of her client,murder suspect Stevie Quirke. Venn is reluctant,especially since Gina and her firm do not appear to exist on paper but is intrigued when Quirke claims to have news of Venn's brother Mark,apparently killed in a police shoot-out years earlier. Leaving the prison Venn is surprised to see Paul Hillman,a policeman whom he also thought was dead. Next day he survives a bomb blast at his office. Meanwhile Opposition Leader Alexander Wentworth goes on television to attack PM Brian Worsley,whose supposed corruption and bribery have caused nation-wide riots. Written by don @ minifie-1

Despite the warning phone call telling him to get out the insurance company claim the explosion was caused by a gas leak. Venn gets his investigator Frank Hanna to break into Gina's doctor's office and find out more about her from her files but heavies led by Jason Styles,who knew Venn's brother,chase him away. Venn seeks out barrister Sir Nigel Fountain,who says that Gina is his daughter and an espouser of lost causes. Whilst Stevie is murdered in prison Venn and his ex-wife Lauren learn their teenage son Michael has been arrested for drug-dealing. Eventually Venn ...

After killing Hillman the mysterious saviour disappears but Venn finds a picture of Jason Styles in Tannzir's possession. Gina explains that Sir Nigel is her adoptive father and her real parents were killed twenty years earlier. Her mother,Jennifer Moscati,was murdered by Tannzir on the orders of Styles,who,she believes,also killed her father as well as being the real killer of Venn's brother. At a dinner given by Wentworth's sponsors Styles also shows up. Venn and Gina return to London where James Morpeth,one of Wentworth's supporters,sends Styles to kill Gina but ...