The Baby And The Brandy (Ben Bracken 1) - Plot & Excerpts
It has just started to spit from mucky clouds high above, and the wipers have come on automatically. I’m beginning to like this car. Anything to keep me thinking of the deceitful web that is unravelling around me, each new reveal more sinister and confusing than the last. I make the journey back into Manchester, along the M62, which is nothing more than a stop-start crawl. Over to my right, I can see Manchester’s skyline, winking and twinkling. Another city that never seems to sleep. I think back to the statistic Jack told me. 160 organized crime gangs. Over there. That seems like an absurdly high number, but I don’t doubt it. Manchester is a proud, progressive city, less susceptible to the navel gazing of other elite cities. Things get done with less self-importance - it’s what attracts big business, and it must be what also attracts illegal business also. Come to think of it, I don’t feel like there is a great deal of difference between big business and illegal business at times.
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