Imprint: No Exit Press
Category: Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Young Alex Hamilton is intelligent and independent but given to sudden fits of violent rage. Rebellious since his parents split up, Alex is constantly absconding from foster homes and institutions to be with his father, a broken man who can’t give his son the home he desperately needs. Surrounded by well-meaning, over-worked social workers, vicious and cruel authority figures but always by no good peers, Alex is on a collision course with the law and himself.
RRP: £5.99
ISBN: 9781874061267
Published: January 1, 1995
Extent: 301 pages
RRP: £4.99
ISBN: 9781842437520
Published: July 26, 2012
‘A scalding experience – and a literary triumph in the tradition of Dreiser, farrell and James Jones. This is an important book’
Roderick Thorp