Frank's Wild Years

Frank's Wild Years is a story of betrayal and last chances at the frayed and fading edges of the south London underworld. IN THE TWILIGHT days between Christmas and New Year, ageing Frank Neaves is about to drink away his last tenner in a Deptford boozer. A former friend and associate of long-dead local villain Dave Price, Frank's scotch-soaked meditation is interrupted when it's discovered that Carl, Price's son and the pub's landlord, has disappeared leaving an oblique one line note for barmaid, Adeline. After a visit to Carl's mother, Rose, they discover he has gone to Hull to bring his young daughter, Grace, back to south London to celebrate New Year's Eve. Adeline knows this means coming up against the malevolent James O'Keefe, Carl's ex-wife's new bloke and small time crook. Certain of a violent confrontation that the Carl can't win, Adeline persuades Frank to join her and together they take a slow train for Humberside. Over the course of the next few days, Frank, Carl and Adeline each have a chance to redeem past mistakes, none more so than Frank, whose past comes back to haunt him in ways he could never have imagined.


Genre: Mystery

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