Brown Boys in Chocolate [Paperback]

The new pulsating thriller from Manchester's Paul Southern, author of The Craze. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

When Rafi Rafiq and Richard Armitage leave their flat on Thursdays their ambition stretches no further than their giros and the bookies. Bonded from birth, blood cousins through school, failures in the hereafter, they share everything: draw, food, fags, booze and vaginas, an unholy pentagram of sleaze. Nowhere Rafi leads is out of bounds. Till now. He gets them caught breaking into Manchester's first all-Asian brothel, Mohammed's Butt's notorious nach ghar, and they're faced with a simple choice: pay or die. But Richard's fallen in love - with Butt's favourite girl, Fari - and decides they have to save her. And, for Rafi, it gets worse. The Death Angel is back. 'Gorgeous George' Cotterel. On the lookout for starlets to play in his latest video nasty, George knows just the thing that will sell them. And just the way to get them. Brown boys in chocolate. When Rafi and Richard answer a ringing phone in Manley Park, the combination is far from their minds, but George has it all planned - and they find themselves wrestling, literally, for their lives.

The new pulsating thriller from Manchester's Paul Southern, author of The Craze. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Murder

Asian Babes

Narcotics

Cocaine

Homos

Ecstasy

Sex

Torture

Erotica

Revenge

When Rafi Rafiq and Richard Armitage leave their flat on Thursdays their ambition stretches no further than their giros and the bookies. Bonded from birth, blood cousins through school, failures in the hereafter, they share everything: draw, food, fags, booze and vaginas, an unholy pentagram of sleaze. Nowhere Rafi leads is out of bounds. Till now. He gets them caught breaking into Manchester’s first all-Asian brothel, Mohammed’s Butt’s notorious nach ghar, and they’re faced with a simple choice: pay or die. But Richard’s fallen in love – with Butt’s favourite girl, Fari – and decides they have to save her.

And, for Rafi, it gets worse: struggling to pay off Butt he resorts to offering himself as a starlet in a video nasty. Brown boys in chocolate. Soon Rafi finds himself wrestling, literally, for his life.

'Southern's the name, hard Northern crime is his subject. Manchester is his manor and he knows the crime scene' Lads Mag

'Southern knows his tuff: what illuminates this novel is the insight in to the lives of the enforcers, pimps, madams and young women sold into prostitution. the switching of perspectives builds tension and makes for a gripping read' Metro

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Paul Southern was a founder member of the indie group Sexus, and is now half of progressive bubblegum group Psychodelicates. He has lived in Ireland, London, Yorkshire and Manchester and is the world's only living expert on Tennyson's stage plays. This is his first novel. His website is www psychodelicates.com.