The detective continues his investigation into a brutal murder in 1980s London.

Through a series of encounters with the people who knew him alive, and through the cassette tapes he left behind, the detective builds up a picture of Staniland, the 51-year-old victim whose case he is investigating, because nobody else wants to.

It leaves him so consumed by empathy that he starts to be led down the same destructive path as the victim...

Derek Raymond's cult-crime novel.

Dramatised Nick Perry

The Detective . . . . . Burn Gorman
Staniland . . . . . Toby Jones
Barbara . . . . . Tanya Franks
Bowman . . . . . Ben Crowe
Fenton . . . . . Jamie Foreman
Margo . . . . . Priyanga Burford
Eric . . . . . Will Howard
Bouncer . . . . . Sean Murray
Dave . . . . . Michael Bertenshaw

Sound design by Caleb Knightley.

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013. Show less