Birmingham has never been known for its friendliness. This city has always been saturated with fog, gunpowder and mud, and the inhabitants have always been squeezed in their grip by an oppressive tension, like a ship that is about to creak into a dark abyss.

Thomas Shelby walked slowly down the street, the soles of his shoes tapping on the cold stone paving stones. People around him recognized him from afar, by his specific confident gait and headdress, and tried not to get in his way. Thomas Shelby is a calm, cold-blooded man with piercing blue eyes, one look from him was like a shot from a pistol. And he knew it. His big name has spread throughout Birmingham and beyond. The most dangerous man in England. And whoever starts communicating with him will never be able to get rid of him again. Shelby is a surname that brings trouble.