Tony Saville grew up a tough, uncompromising East London teenage gang leader and family bookmaker's debt collector. More a vigilante with morals and a lot of charm, a neighbourhood PC persuades Tony to join the police. Relocated to East Anglia, and promoted to Inspector, he never relinquishes his family roots.

When morally bound to mete out unofficial justice to honour a colleague, Tony turns to his old lifestyle reaching the attention of an ambitious Assistant Chief Constable with similar ideals, who lures Tony into joining his team.

Reaching a crossroads, trapped as an unassuming mercenary for the ACC's ambitions, Tony must choose between returning to the principles of the force or descending into the darker, exciting lifestyle of his youth.

'He who rides a tiger cannot dismount.'

Still One of the Family is a new crime fiction novel about the moral dilemmas facing officers tackling crime in their own way.