Martyn Waites

Switching continuously between 1984 and the present day, the plot follows the intertwined lives of five characters, all linked in various ways to the miners' strike. As the lives of the characters unfold, it becomes clear the strike will have devastating repercussions.

When a friend's sixteen-year-old daughter goes missing, investigative reporter Stephen Larkin is enlisted to help find her. Following a trail of warring drug dealers, child prostitution, and born-again Christian gangsters, it soon becomes clear that they are not the only ones looking for the girl, and that others don't care if she is found dead ...