Description:

"The Brink" is set in 1940 when Britain is at war. John Riggs is a working class, self-educated police detective trying to establish himself in a class-ridden world. He's prepared to lie and to use people in order to get ahead, but his increasingly problematic personal life - the demands of his former girlfriend, his affair with the wife of his boss, an ambiguous relationship with a young WPC, suspicions about a foreign doctor at his lodging house...all these complicate his professional activities. When he finds a body in a bomb-blasted house, and the victim is burned beyond recognition, and there is a strong smell of petrol...he becomes suspicious. And then he spots his own St. Christopher medal lying there by the victim's hand....the last time he'd seen that medal was at Alice's place... The implications hit him; he realises this case calls for some serious investigation, some real detective work - for a change.