After a mysterious disappearance on the canal, Jock turns up in Belfast gun-running for the IRA during the 'troubles'. He hatches a more lucrative scheme with a Palestinian and the story follows the conspiracy to divert weapons to the Black September Organisation. Helen, Jock's erstwhile partner in a previous black market scam, is reunited with her son after a prison sentence and she fears for her safety while Jock is at large. We follow the arms shipment by road, Grand Union Canal and sea to a destination on the Suffolk coast where Jock is ultimately served his final retribution.

Bob Bennett grew up in Henry territory ... in Cloncurry and in Ayr on the Burdekin. A journalist with some 50 years' experience, he worked on newspapers in Townsville, Brisbane and Hong Kong before providing media services to government and business organisations. He also studied at both James Cook and Queensland Universities.