FORMER gypsy prize-fighter, Henry Torrance has served his time for killing fellow bare-knuckle fighter, Bull Jackson, and only hopes for a quiet future. But the past rears its ugly head in the shape of a fight challenge from the criminal Jackson family and Henry’s own family are more than keen on him to return to his old ways.

Sedgefield author Peter Taylor plunges the reader below the surface life of cool, modern Britain into a more primitive, dangerous and exciting world in which tribal loyalties still hold strong.