The late-’70s East End is a pressure cooker—riots brewing, loyalties for sale, and the Met stretched to breaking. Detective Ricky Hunter is rebuilding a life he’s already blown apart when a volatile new love collides with a case that won’t stay in its lane. A routine arrest sparks reprisals, informants go missing, and corridors of power barter justice like contraband. Off duty, desire cuts as deep as any blade; on duty, every decision draws blood. In Love and Turmoil, the fourth volume of The Private Life of a Public Servant, Ricky must decide what the badge, the truth, or the person who believes there’s still something worth saving in him.