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Behind every tough, rundown, drug and crime-ridden estate there's always an untouchable hardcase controlling it. In Byker that person is Falcus...or so he thinks. His crown is slipping, the challenges are constant and, what he and the rest of the little scrotes that infest this hole are about to realise, is there is a power struggle going on; a real threat to how things are run round here. A vigilante soon makes himself known. He's the new face, taking on any scumbag who gets in his way, picking them off one by one until only the kingpin is left...

Special is a gritty crime drama set in a world where unemployment is rife, petty thievery is the norm and the iron fist rules. This is where your face gets punched if it doesn't fit, where your wallet gets taxed if you walk down the wrong street and your car gets robbed if you leave it there long enough. This is real life. This is Byker.

After Billy Reeves had survived a poverty ridden and violent childhood on a council estate in Newcastle he thought he had it all; a loving family, money and respect but a face from the past with a point to prove and muscles to flex is out to bring his world crashing down on him. He turns down an offer of a job with Tyneside’s most paranoid and psychotic gang lord and is faced with bent police, a corrupt judge, an army of bouncers and the knowledge that if he makes one wrong move in this game of cat and mouse his family will end up imprisoned, abused or worse.Billy is going to have to work very hard just to keep everyone he cares about alive and that means the gloves are coming off...

Andy Rivers has crafted a Machiavellian tale of council estate politicking amongst the sex, drugs, good guys and thugs of the Tyneside underworld. This crime thriller is written in an, almost unique, multiple first person point of view and will entertain and appal you in equal measure. We think it's a corker and hope you do too.

The name's Palmer...Pagga Palmer...

Neville 'Pagga' Palmer is an over-sexed, run-of-the-mill, Geordie doorman with delusions of grandeur. Despite being terrified of his local rivals and thicker than a whale omelette he's convinced that he's a highly trained spy who is simply 'sleeping' until needed by the security services. This isn't a scenario that anyone who has ever met him would think likely...until one day an upper-class, blonde-haired spook asks him to sign the official secrets act and tells him that his services are required for King and country!

Bad guys beware 'cos Pagga's coming to save the world...

Andy Rivers discovered Newcastle United as a young boy in the early seventies, mainly thanks to a family member taking him to his first match. Given the stress and despair this has caused him over the last thirty years it’s fair to assume that this action would be considered child abuse today. Through a series of anecdotes about matches he attended, and some he didn’t, we learn about the events that shaped Andy’s character. His internal struggles with a working class inferiority complex and how he moved South in an attempt to do something with his life. All of this influenced his evolution from old school, lager swilling, foul mouthed teenager to old school, wine sipping, foul mouthed grown up.

The book examines his relationship with his football team, comparing it to a lifelong love affair that will always end in disappointment, well for one party at least, and will

be identified with by supporters everywhere.