But loitering in the shadows is another woman, Ida Arnold-an avenging angel determined to do right by Pinkie’s latest victim. Pinkie’s attempts to cover their tracks have led him into the bed of a timid and lovestruck young waitress named Rose-his new wife, the key witness to his crimes, and, should she live long enough, his alibi. On the streets, impelled by his own twisted moral doctrine, he leads a motley pack of gangsters whose sleazy little rackets have most recently erupted in the murder of an informant.
Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised amid the casual violence and corruption in the dire prewar Brighton slums, has left his final judgment in the hands of God. Summary A teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain’s criminal underworld in this “brilliant and uncompromising” thriller (The New York Times).
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