An electrifying noir novel about lost loves and stolen drugsIt's Manchester, 1998, and the funeral party for Henry Bane's father is interrupted by a woman from Bane's past. Roisin is back in his life after an eight-year absence, inconvenient for Jan, his latest flame. Roisin has brought a wounded boyfriend with her--and a lot more trouble is following them up north. Meanwhile, a Yardie who goes by the name of "Hagfish" wants to take over the local ganglords' territory with Mary, his terrifying weapon of choice. It's Hagfish against Bane in a new turf war: a war that will claim...
An electrifying noir novel about lost loves and stolen drugsIt's Manchester, 1998, and the funeral party for Henry Bane's father is interru...
Tom Benn does for low-life Manchester what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh in a seamy, violent, yet soulful crime story It's Manchester, at the close of the millennium, and Henry Bane is now manager of an exclusive nightclub. He has a beautiful mistress, a teenage son, and is making moves in a violent underworld to which he is increasingly numbed. When a young girl is found tortured and unwilling to go to the police, Bane offers to help, and finds horror in a feral community with a respectable veneer. But, by meddling, he ends up endangering those he wants to protect. Not...
Tom Benn does for low-life Manchester what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh in a seamy, violent, yet soulful crime story It's Manches...