Sudden Times

Ollie Ewing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he's collecting trolleys in a supermarket car park and living in a run-down house with a group of art students. he has lost his child-like innocence and he can't escape what ha happened in London. Tormented by old fears and regrets, he loses himself in everyday routine and is kept going by his painfully black sense of humour.

Finally, Ollie steels himself to return to England to confront his demons. He re-enters a world of casual labour and protection rackets on the building sites of London; a world people by sinister figures such as Silver John and Scots Bob; an intimidating world of uncertain justice where violence will easily erupt.