Good Cop, Bad War

Neil Woods spent fourteen years infiltrating drug gangs as an undercover detective, gaining the trust of some of the most violent, unpredictable criminals in Britain.

But Neil was never your stereotypical gung-ho, tough-guy copper. This is the story of how a thoughtful, idealistic character learned to use his empathetic nature to master some of the roughest, most dangerous work in law enforcement. There was no training, no manual and no plan for when things went wrong; he was just dropped at a corner and told to make connections.

But, inevitably, having swords thrust against his jugular, witnessing beatings, stabbings, and gangsters burning suspected rats with acid took its toll – leading Neil to question the very logic of the War on Drugs he had given so much of his life to fighting.