Jim Smith grew up in the tenements of Govan, Glasgow, and
dreamt of being a policeman as far back as he can
remember. As he says, 'Thief-taking is in the blood.'
Joining the police force at the age of twenty-one in
1962, he was posted to the East End of London where a
career of steady selection began; one that would bring
him into contact with the full range of criminals and
criminal activity - including, ultimately, corruption
within Scotland Yard itself. Here for the first time, he
exposes the corrupt cabal in the Yard and relates how he
was targeted by a small group of officers there who
engineered his transfer out of that unit and subsequently
strove to malignly influence his career. With a wealth of
colourful and sometimes shocking stories, Undaunted
traces both Jim's police days and his work as a private
investigator in the UK and abroad.
