Synopsis Available here in one volume for the first time, Jake Arnott's classic sequence of novels reads like an unofficial history of Britain in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Ranging from the Swinging Sixties to the Raving Nineties and with a cast that includes the machiavellian gangster Harry Starks, politicians, bent coppers, actresses and gutter journalists, Arnott's fictional portrait of cultural change and moral decay is at once sharply funny, relentlessly compelling, and frighteningly real.