Bøker av Tom Benn

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.

It's Manchester, 1998, and the funeral party for Henry Bane's father is interrupted by a woman from Bane's past. It's a conflict steeped in half-forgotten history: a history that Bane and Roisin are forever tied to - and which ties them together.

It's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two murders. On the front page there's a photograph of a glamorous Egyptian woman, a socialite and heiress to an oil fortune, whose partially clothed body has been found in the basement of a block of flats.