![]() ![]() Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him. But loitering in the shadows is another woman, Ida Arnold-an avenging angel determined to do right by Pinkie’s latest victim.Īdapted for film in both 19 and for the stage as both a drama and musical, and serving as an inspiration to such disparate artists as Morrissey, John Barry, and Queen, “this bleak, seething and anarchic novel still resonate” ( The Guardian). ![]() 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. ![]() 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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