A brilliant debut novel that does for Manchester what Irvine Welsh did for Edinburgh in 'Trainspotting' and 'Porno'.
Three lives. One night. No future.
Manchester: no place for dreams though some people still cling to them: a drug-crazed, violent city on the brink of anarchy.
One summer day three characters are drawn to their destiny. Jamie Farrell, a teenage car jacker who plays chicken on the city's dual carriageways and has fallen in with Billy, a gun-toting psychopath. Today Billy is going to become a killer. Dru, the gay cabaret artist who thinks his lucky day has come until he runs into Jamie and Billy. Shazia, a fugitive from her orthodox Pakistani family, kidnapped by her own blood and given into the care of a drug warlord.
Their fates are tragically bound together and will be forged in a blood denouement.
