Martina Cole

Author Martina Cole's sweeping crime saga is adapted for the screen in this miniseries starring Tom Hardy and Brian Cox. The year is 1984. Freddie Jackson (Hardy) has just served four years of hard time; now he's ready to set the London underworld ablaze. In the following years, Freddie launches a criminal rampage that can best be described as psychotic, and that quickly draws the attention of feared criminal kingpin Ozzy (Cox). (allrovi.com)

Maura Ryan is the only daughter and the youngest child of a poor Irish family enmeshed in the criminal world. She's been sheltered from the family's violent life until their status starts diminishing, at which point she takes the Ryan's family destiny into her own hands, providing an unexpectedly formidable opponent to the tough, underworld figures.