Whitley Bay, 1993...

 

Beneath the bright lights, revelry and house music rhythms of Tyneside’s coastal party town beats a darker and more threatening pulse.

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Carl Liddle is a successful thief and drug distributer with a taste for the good life and for the beautiful young wife of Newcastle’s most powerful and brutal crime boss. Carl knows that their secret trysts may be the death of them both. What he doesn’t know is that he’s about to be caught up in a gangland war that will set the streets ablaze. 

 

For years, George Bolton and Kenny Reid have held an iron grip on the bars and clubs of Tyneside, along with the drugs, protection rackets, gambling and prostitution a that goes with it. But now, their empire is unravelling.

 

The Taylor brothers, their most vicious enforcers, harbour a seething resentment toward them, and now their ruthless ambition is boiling over as they plan a bloody insurrection to grab everything for themselves.  

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Paul Docherty was just seventeen when his father was bludgeoned to death. Five years on, he remains on a quest to find the killer, and win the hand of the woman he loves. When Carl Liddle takes him under his wing things start to look rosy for him – until the streets catch fire and the bullets start to fly.