Black Rose

Chas Larkin is a small, constantly bullied youngster who learns that existence comes down to survival. In the sleazy, violent East End of London in 1966, he finds his nerve and decides to take on the city's gangs.

Without knowing it, he gets help from Scotland Yard and MI5, who use the boy to hold back an IRA campaign in the city. He works alongside the mysterious DCI Casey, a puzzling figure among the bomb-damaged slums, and together they stir up the simmering unrest. What Chas really wants is total revenge, and he hopes to have it by midsummer.

Black Rose is a story of matriarchal strength and superstition. It features a lucky charm tainted with malevolent juju, and follows a young man's smoldering anger and thirst for retribution.

This edition is a large print version with a bigger typeface for easier reading.