First viewed : 4 January 1990
I didn't catch this Channel Four drama series about the heroin trade first time round in 1989 but saw it all on repeat.
The action took place in London, Germany and Pakistan showing the impact of the drug on various lives. Bill Paterson played Jack Lithgow a Home Office minister looking to combat the drug trade whose efforts are undermined when his daughter Caroline ( Julia Ormond in her first screen role ) becomes an addict. British policy affects decent farmer Fazal ( Jamal Shah ) driving him into the orbit of evil drug lord Tariq Butt ( Talat Hussain ). Butt's main European distributors are German businessman Rosshalde ( George Kukura ) and his English wife Helen ( Lindsay Duncan ) who has to take over the operation when her husband is arrested.
It was a tightly plotted, absorbing drama with reasonably happy endings; Butt quite literally gets it in the neck.
The story was adapted for the big screen in 2000 which in turn inspired a 2004 miniseries.
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