Bodie and Doyle| top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5)| and their controller| George Cowley fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley|
a hard ex-MI5 operative| hand-picked each of his men. Bodie was a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence| while his
partner| Doyle| came to CI5 from the regular police force| and was more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship was often contentious| but they were the top
men in their field| and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases