""Don't believe what they say: money can buy everything - and I have lots of it.""
It's Eddie's trial and Michael is reliving events he'd rather forget. Giving evidence means he can't hide, and there are still people looking for him and old debts to be repaid. It was never going to be easy.
Face to face with the man who raped him, Michael runs from court, but he's not alone. Close behind him is trainee reporter Becky, and the story she wants will make or break her career after a telephone call sends Michael running for his life.
But running away never solved a problem. Michael...

Lenny's turned his back on the past. In return for police protection and a lighter sentence, he's grassed up his old gangland boss and he's hoping that eventually he'll be free to start a new life with Amanda.
But the past isn't giving up on him yet. New man on the block Mick Carlotti fancies himself as a crime lord - he doesn't have the contacts or the business acumen, but he knows a man who does. He also knows exactly how to get Lenny to play ball.
Caught between Carlotti's rock and the hard place of a life sentence for a murder he didn't commit, Lenny's running out of choices....

Lenny's been released early from prison. He's got a normal and boring job, and he's living a normal and boring life in a small flat in Liverpool. But Lenny's never done normal. Or boring. Everything comes with a price and the local cops have already been in touch, expecting him to provide intelligence about his old life in London.
Then an email sends him racing back down south. It's not the best idea he's ever had, but it's Becky who's contacted him and she's always been his weak spot. Becky's teenage brother is missing, and Lenny knows that heading to London to search for him means...