Brit-Cit, 2131 AD. Detective-Judge Armitage is the best plainclothes operative in the Brit-Cit Justice Department, trawling the seamy underbelly of a rotten state. Often clashing with the bureaucracy that he sees as hindering any CID investigation, he’s also arrogant, opinionated and stubborn – as his long-suffering partner Treasure Steel knows all too well...