My Heart Never Left Home
One of the things I most vividly remember growing up is my grandfather telling me you can take the boy out of Newcastle but you can't take Newcastle out of the boy. I left the city 16 years ago, emigrating to Sweden and a new life. Yesterday I released my first novel set in Newcastle since Laughing Boy's Shadow, which I wrote when I was 20... there's 24 years between books in my home town and one thing I know now more than ever before, you can't take Newcastle out of the boy.
It's a special town in that it owns part of my soul. That's one of the reasons the new book is called Northern Soul.
What can I tell you about it? Well, Jack's back, like me, returning to his home town.
Will Platt, an old school friend, reaches out to Jack. Just one job. A simple one, a pick up from a bonded warehouse down south. Jack Stone knows what trouble smells like. It smells like Will Platt. Jack wants no part of the job. But sometimes it's hard to walk away from trouble. That's because trouble has a way of looking for men like Jack Stone. A stroll down memory lane--which is run-down and desperate like the rest of this seedy part of town--turns into a world of hurt, Jack's innate sense of justice is tested to the limits when instead of a simple buzz cut he's treated to a front row seat for an extortioner's shakedown.
He can't just sit by idly and watch.
Jack's not that kind of man.
So Jack makes a deal with the devil, he'll do a job for them to pay off the old man's debt.
Lenny Parker's looking for a woman, Sindy Nightingale, an old cabaret singer from the 70s club circuit, a proper heart breaker, the kind of woman young boys pinned up posters of on their bedroom walls and fantasized about. The problem is Sindy doesn't want to be found. By the time Jack understands why it's too late, he's brought the devil to her door.
Northern Soul is the first full-length Jack Stone novel by Steven Savile & Steve Lockley and can be read as part of the on-going series or as a stand-alone novel.
US Link
NORTHERN SOUL
and the UK Link
NORTHERN SOUL
It's a special town in that it owns part of my soul. That's one of the reasons the new book is called Northern Soul.
What can I tell you about it? Well, Jack's back, like me, returning to his home town.
Will Platt, an old school friend, reaches out to Jack. Just one job. A simple one, a pick up from a bonded warehouse down south. Jack Stone knows what trouble smells like. It smells like Will Platt. Jack wants no part of the job. But sometimes it's hard to walk away from trouble. That's because trouble has a way of looking for men like Jack Stone. A stroll down memory lane--which is run-down and desperate like the rest of this seedy part of town--turns into a world of hurt, Jack's innate sense of justice is tested to the limits when instead of a simple buzz cut he's treated to a front row seat for an extortioner's shakedown.
He can't just sit by idly and watch.
Jack's not that kind of man.
So Jack makes a deal with the devil, he'll do a job for them to pay off the old man's debt.
Lenny Parker's looking for a woman, Sindy Nightingale, an old cabaret singer from the 70s club circuit, a proper heart breaker, the kind of woman young boys pinned up posters of on their bedroom walls and fantasized about. The problem is Sindy doesn't want to be found. By the time Jack understands why it's too late, he's brought the devil to her door.
Northern Soul is the first full-length Jack Stone novel by Steven Savile & Steve Lockley and can be read as part of the on-going series or as a stand-alone novel.
US Link
NORTHERN SOUL
and the UK Link
NORTHERN SOUL
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