Jack Carter is home for his brother Frank's funeral. Frank's car was found at the bottom of a cliff, with Frank inside. He was not only dead drunk but dead as well. Why would sensible Frank down a bottle of whisky and get behind the wheel? For Jack, his death doesn't add up. So he decides to talk to a few people, but he is soon told to stop.

Doncaster, and Jack Carter is home for a funeral - his brother Frank''s. Frank had been found dead and drunk in his car at the bottom of a cliff. Now, Frank was a mild, sober man, so why did he land up dead in his car at the bottom of a cliff? Jack thinks his death doesn''t add up and decides to ask questions. But he is told to stop by Gerald and Les who run a porn ''firm'' and Jack is their hit man. Frank did as he was told, but Jack is not like that . . .This is a tough, uncompromising novel portraying a stark society of people living on the dangerous border-line between crime and respectability.