It’s the start of the 21st century. And a single bullet will change two lives.
Raymond is a shy young man with two A levels. He wishes he’d gone to Uni. But his father wants him to take over the family business. And his father is a gangster and a killer.
Barry wants to be a poet. But he’s also — in his own words — a user of the mental health services. And his two best friends are the late John Lennon and the even later Erwin Rommel, Hitler’s military boss.
In a Yorkshire bus station a shot rings out. It’s the shot that brings Ray and Barry together — and sets off a sequence of violent events that ends in grim murder and even grimmer poetry.
