The Driver: Crime and cruelty rule the streets

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When you play with fire, everyone gets burned . . . Joe Weeks is new to the Grange Estate. Tolerant, doesn't mind a bit of weed, doesn't try to pull other men's women. Live and let live is his motto . . . Eddie Quinn is the hardest man on the estate. Everyone knows that it's a bad idea to cross him, or his pit bull. But everyone also knows he's honest, as drug dealers go. Joe's pleased when Eddie offers him a job. But then he meets Katya. A prostitute. A slave. And desperate to escape from Eddie.

Mandasue Heller was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Crescents which have since become the background to her novels. Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.

A cracking read that will chill you to the bone. - Sun One of the bad girls of gritty crime, Heller has written a blinder. - Daily Mirror Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel. - Martina Cole on FORGET ME NOT A glamorous nightclub hides a seedy underworld that Heller knows only too well. - Daily Express on THE CLUB Gripping . . . powerful writing. - Scotland on Sunday on FORGET ME NOT Cracking page-turner . . . a gritty compassionate account of life on the margins. - Manchester Evening News on FORGET ME NOT Alarming . . . beguiling . . . exhilarating. - Scotsman on THE FRONT