A gang war is raging through the dark, seedy underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, fighting for leadership, is only seventeen, yet he has already proved his ruthlessness in the brutal killing of Hale, a journalist. Untouched by human feeling, Pinkie is isolated from the rest of the world, a figure of pure evil. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge Hale's death.
Graham Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness, pain and fear, of life lived on the dangerous edge of things...