xiii, 263 pages, 16 pages of plates : some colour illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents
Prologue: An extraordinary coincidence -- On the beat -- Ditching the uniform -- The deep north -- Confessions -- Power without glory -- The Catholic Mafia -- The smother -- A brush with scandal -- Bloodied but unbowed -- Afterword -- Day and the darkness: three victims speak
Summary
One policeman's desperate and moving account of how he tried for decades to bring a paedophile priest to justice - but was blocked by not only the Catholic Church but by his own police force