Kicking Off

By Jan Needle

Rosanna Nixon – a small but feisty one-girl awkward squad known as the Mouse – is beginning to realize that her job is choking her to death. Her rival tabloid newshounds want to screw her – in every way – and they haven’t got a hope in hell. When a young convict dies during a riot at a Scottish jail, she alone refuses to accept the official line it was an accident. The authorities, panicking, transfer the wildest prisoners down to England – including the brother of the murdered man. Known as ‘The Animal’, and burning for revenge, he is dumped blindly into a prison that is already a bomb ready to explode. He will do anything to get out. Roseanna’s shady contacts put her onto Andrew Forbes. Very soon they are a team, then lovers, living under constant surveillance and harassment in Forbes’s rundown London house. As the cauldron of violence in the prison begins to boil over, the fuse of their own destruction is being lit… Andrew and Roseanna fear the worst is coming. And that they are being stalked by death.