Manchester Slingback

Book excerpt: A successful man confronts his hustler youth when an old friend is murdered in this crime novel exploring the gritty gay Village of ’80s Manchester. At thirty-four years old, Jake Powell is a consummate professional in charge of an upscale casino in the West End of London. But fifteen years ago, Jake was hustling on the fringes of Manchester’s gay Village: running wild with a crowd of rentboys, purse-snatchers and disco trash; sleeping with anyone and everything. In those days, Jake did a lot of things he’s not proud of. And what little he does remember he’d prefer to forget. But when Detective Inspector Davey Green takes a sudden and unexpected interest in his past, Jake is forced to confront the dirty secrets that led to the murder of his best friend . . .