The new tattoos on his face - they held him down in the nick & did them for him - make Stone look like a scary individual. He's trying to rebuild his life, he really is. But the battered Asian girl he finds in his doorway drags him straight back to the old world of Hull lowlife, all psychos & Dobermans. Highly acclaimed for his York-based Sam Turner series, John Baker strikes out on a different tack - different, but equally brilliant.