Gideon's men

Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard faces a fresh surge of lawlessness across London. As he and his detectives work to contain it, their private troubles start to weigh on their judgment and their ability to do the job. The question is whether those strains will leave the force unable to meet the city's new wave of crime.

This is a police procedural in the long-running Gideon series, which follows the day-to-day work of a Scotland Yard team. The focus falls as much on the officers' home lives and inner pressures as on the investigation itself, giving a grounded portrait of London's detectives in the 1960s.