Seen through the eyes of Dennis Dover, underground rock guitarist and intrepid photojournalist, and set against the detailed backdrop of a world in turmoil - from Paris to Rwanda, from New York to Kosovo - 'King Of The City' charts the last twenty-five years of crisis and consumerism, exposing the beating heart of our chaotic and exuberant times.
The death of Princess Di heralded a spring clean of the soul. And the dirt we wanted off our coffee tables was the kind of salacious exposure tabloid paparazzo photographer Denny Dover had made a fortune out of. Now he's out of work and moving to the godforsaken wastes of Skerring on the South coast of England to lick his wounds.
A former rock star and existential maverick this East End lad-made-good lived it up with the best of them. But his childhood friend, hugely wealthy magnate Sir John Barbican-Begg (deceased, allegedly) is resurrecting events from a past littered with dysfunction and greed, sex, rock and roll and a ton of drugs. Denny's life encapsulates the fevered underground of a London teeming with contradiction and ambivalence, subversion and rage.
