VETERAN CID boss Vic Pollard drinks too much, thinks too much (about the childhood he lost because of his war-damaged father), and hits rock bottom when he is overlooked for the top job he thought had his name on it - in favour of a rank outsider.He quits the Northumbria police force but there is no escape when a dismembered body is found in a giant petrol storage tank being drained of leaded petrol as part of the quiet, green forecourt revolution...