King of the Streets

Sam Turner has more than enough on his plate. He is helping the woman from Scottish Widows track the murderer of her husband and is investigating the death of a teenage runaway. That's without his office being trashed and Frank Taylor, a bad-news gang boss from Manchester, turning up with his nasty habits and even nastier tastes. "John Baker brings heart, invention and wit to the business of adapting the tough-guy novel to the realities of contemporary Britain." Ian Ousby, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY