It's a Battlefield

In this story of violence and betrayal, Jim, a London bus-driver, is accused of killing a policeman. From this point of departure, Greene takes us on a panoramic tour of the British judicial system as it slowly bestirs itself to an examination of the matter at hand, and in the process we are brought into the vast economy of modern crime--the lawyers, policemen, informers, and victims, few of whom seem capable or interested in making fine distinctions regarding guilt and innocence.