The Vice Captain

by Mike Hutton (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.28

  Mike Hutton takes us deep into the world of 1950s Soho and its violent, corrupt underbelly of gang warfare and prostitution. At the centre of the novel is Derek Emms, an educated, middle class ex-army captain whose harrowing wartime experiences have left him unable to settle down to normal civilian life. With seeming tragic inevitability, he is drawn into a life of violence and crime and finds himself trapped by the hard man image he has created. While the rest of the country celebrates the dawn of a new Elizabethan age, the Captain must finally face up to the bitter consequences of his degredation...This is a story of the fifties. Of duffle coats and cavalry twill. Of gang warfare and police corruption. Of bohemian glamour and red - light squalor. Of midnight Mass in Soho Square and bondage in Greek Street...Above all though, it is a tale of one man's struggle to retain his dignity in a merciless world. In this, his third novel, author Mike Hutton has written a gripping, existential thriller that should appeal to lovers of Soho and Graham Greene alike.