- Winner
- of
- the
- Sunday
- Times
- Charlotte
- Aitken
- Young
- Writer
- of
- the
- Year
- AwardIt'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.When
- a
- young
- girl
- is
- found
- tortured
- and
- unwilling
- to
- go
- to
- the
- police,
- Bane
- offers
- to
- help,
- and
- finds
- horror
- in
- a
- feral
- community
- with
- a
- respectable
- veneer.
- But,
- by
- meddling,
- he
- ends
- up
- endangering
- those
- he
- wants
- to
- protect.
- Not
- only
- that,
- he
- also
- manages
- to
- incur
- the
- wrath
- of
- an
- ailing
- ganglord,
- and
- soon
- finds
- himself
- tangled
- in
- a
- penthouse
- robbery
- and
- an
- underground
- boxing
- match.Trouble
- Man
- takes
- Bane
- through
- a
- hell,
- perhaps
- of
- his
- own
- making,
- where
- he
- is
- pushed
- to
- his
- limit
- -
- and
- the
- trouble
- only
- gets
- closer
- to home.
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