- When an academic is found dead after a CND rally, Gently and Bacchus are dispatched to Durham University to investigate his background - and find themselves in the midst of a wave of social and sexual rebellion.
- The year is 1966 and the football World Cup has come to England. With the USSR due to play at Roker Park and the fear of the 'Reds Under the Bed' exemplified by the upcoming Polaris submarine landing at the nearby Jarrow docks, tensions are running high. CND protesters, lead by radical students from Durham University, are the last thing the police need when the world media is on their doorstep awaiting the upcoming football match. Gently and Bacchus investigate the murder of a well know Lefty academic, found dead in the docks post a CND rally. This takes them onto the Durham University campus - an ancient temple of learning struggling to come to terms with the novel influx of students from the working class and brash, radical, academics. Sexual and Social rebellion is everywhere in the air and to the young and optimistic these forces seem inevitable and unstoppable. Bacchus is horrified yet fascinated by the promiscuity on display. Gently, a war veteran, more shrewdly recognises that Liberation is not always an unmixed blessing...—Anonymous
- DCI George Gently and DS John Bacchus investigate the murder of Fraser Barratt, a left-wing university professor they had actually had contact with during an anti-nuclear rally. He was found in the water but it's clear he had been clubbed and had not drowned. He had been seen at a pub the previous evening drinking with other protesters including student Elizabeth Higgs, who is nowhere to be found. After they find her bag in the river, they learn that Elizabeth was teaching dock worker David Swift to read but he denies knowing anything about the events that night. Charles Hexton, the head porter at the university, had a falling out with Barratt when the professor spent the night with Higgs in her room. When Elizabeth reappears, she admits to having argued with Barratt and that he injured his head when she pushed him. The solution to the crime however is found in a dark secret.—garykmcd
- In the summer of 1966, the Northumbrian police come under increasing media scrutiny, as Sunderland prepares to host a World Cup match including the hated USSR, while peace campaigners protest against the proposed landing of the Polaris nuclear submarine at Jarrow docks. When Fraser Barratt, a left-wing university professor, is found dead after a CND rally, Gently and Bacchus are dispatched to Durham University to investigate his background - and find themselves in the midst of a wave of social and sexual rebellion. Barratt systematically seduced student and colleagues, including missing Elizabeth Higgs, who was teaching dock worker David Swift to read but he is afraid if collaborating. A key informer is Charles Hexton, the war veteran turned head porter at the university, who also informs the secret service, as the leftist bunch might actually compromise the nearby Polaris nuclear submarines base.—KGF Vissers
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