Status Zero

by Roger Granelli

STATUS ZERO introduces Mark Richards, later to feature in Kindle Top 3 bestseller DEAD PRETTY, and THE LOST ONES – together they form Granelli's remarkable trilogy of one man's bloody rites of passage.Mark is fifteen and already starting out on a life of crime, desperate to relieve the tedium of his fatherless life on a sink estate. It's dog eat dog where he lives and Mark wants to be top dog. When it seems life can't get any bleaker his baby brother Shane disappears, never to be found. In the frame for his brother's disappearance Mark's criminal activities escalate until the pressure is too much and he lets himself be caught. He's swallowed up by the nightmarish system of young offenders but here he finds the one ray of hope that might be his salvation and a possible way out of his old life.STATUS ZERO is disturbing, provocative, violent, and ultimately very moving, full of vivid set pieces of life at the sharp end in Britain in the 1990s.

187 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2000