Publisher's Synopsis
"The author's talent for scratching below the placid surface of people and places to reveal anguish and wickedness is matchless" THE TIMES Denis is living on the edge of society; neglected and unwanted, he scrapes by on his earnings as an odd-jobber. His is the sort of desperation that will tip into lawlessness at the drop of a monkey wrench. A chance encounter with Len, inmate of the local open prison, enables Denis to prove himself as the accessory to a cunningly contrived crime. But things take a turn for the worse as the crime ends in murder and leaves Denis running for his life.
