From the author of the latest official James Bond novel
''Charlie Higson''s thrillers are major events'' Mark Billingham
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Dennis ''The Menace'' Pike, former wild man of Tottenham, is going grey and going straight. Anyway, it was hard work being a yob- the birds, the brawls, the endless beers- and he hasn''t really got the energy any more for life on the edge. Then two old faces turn up from the past- the Bishop brothers, Chas and Noel. Famously inept, they were bad news then, and they haven''t aged well. What''s worse, they need Pike''s expertise on a scheme wealth distribution really- offloading one of the old gang''s ill-gotten millions. Robbing the robbers- now what''s criminal about that?
Pike, still haunted by what happened one wreckless night all th
