Fractious (Paperback)

London in the 1980's drugs and prostitution are rife and to survive you have to be one hard hearted bastard with eye's in the back of your head. That's Linda Gerraty and Paulie Santini to a tee: but Linda has one weakness her Son Luke. Linda gave Luke up for adoption when she was a crack addicted street whore but now Luke's all grown up and Linda wants him back. Over the years Linda's evolved into a revered and despised madam with a main stake in the drugs trade, clubs all over town and a hard core base of enforcers but someone has a score to settle with Linda that has lasted almost twenty years and that someone is Jez Watson. Shirley Watson and Linda Gerraty had been friends and worked the streets together for years and at one time Jez had thought Linda was family but all that changed when Jez hit adolescence and Linda took him as her lover. Spite, greed and jealousy crept in to the Women's relationship and Shirley would suffer the consequences for almost twenty years. Jez burnt with desire to exact revenge on the Woman he has learnt to hate and didn't care how he got it but tragedy strikes and Jez will regret crossing Linda for the rest of his days on Earth.