In this darkly comedic follow-up to Charlie Williams breakthrough novel Deadfolk , Hoppers head doorman Royston Blake is once again up to his eyeballs in trouble of the worst kind. Since his face-off with the Munton brothers, Blake has been enjoying life as a pillar of the Mangel community. Sure, its a bleak and rather dodgy town, but its his town all the same. At least, until enigmatic outsider Nick Nopoly waltzes in and starts collecting friends faster than can possibly be legal. Blake doesnt think much of him until he notices a change in the behavior of Hoppers younger clientele less beery violence, more nonsensical blathering. But