Summer 1977: It’s no holiday in the sun in Handstead New Town, a north Manchester overspill. Known to the local cops as Horse’s Arse, it’s preparing to celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. But lob-in soccer violence, rampant police hooliganism, and an expanding LSD market—there’ll be a riot going on. Local gangster Sercan Ozdemir has underestimated DCI Harrison, head of the CID; blood on the floor in an interview room is all in a day’s work for him. And Ozdemir knows that if his crime family discovers he’s been doing his own thing, they’ll pull his face off. Meanwhile the uniform cops, Psycho, Pizza, the Brothers, Ally, and the others hurl the rule book out of the window and continue to hold the tide of criminal scum at bay for as long as they can in a town they despise.