As an Irishman in the Metropolitan police, Flight is already marked out as an outsider. Securing Reids trust and respect is an even harder task, however, for Reid sees in him only a reminder of the violent and tragic loss of another young man PC Dick Hobbs.But Flight is to prove himself not only worthy of Reids respect; but also unworthy of the kind of innocence that drew such affection to Hobbs. For Flight is a man of secrets. Secrets at which the men of H Division could never even guess.