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One Step Beyond
Mid-eighties England, poll tax, miner strikes, riots and war. The fascist movement is gaining momentum as disillusion spreads across the country.
Mal is a right-wing skinhead who lives in a world fuelled by hate and anger, both things he has in abundance.
Ashraf is a lonely Asian boy who’s only two friends work in the Comic Cave. Kate is the focus of his attention but shuns his clumsy advance. This, together with his failings at school and his dismal home life, push him to rock bottom. Ejected onto the streets as a race riot steps up a gear, he meets a gang of angry skinheads hell-bent on causing him harm…
Malcolm and Ashraf’s worlds collide, but neither expected the events that would follow, or the changes they would both go through.
Mal is a right-wing skinhead who lives in a world fuelled by hate and anger, both things he has in abundance.
Ashraf is a lonely Asian boy who’s only two friends work in the Comic Cave. Kate is the focus of his attention but shuns his clumsy advance. This, together with his failings at school and his dismal home life, push him to rock bottom. Ejected onto the streets as a race riot steps up a gear, he meets a gang of angry skinheads hell-bent on causing him harm…
Malcolm and Ashraf’s worlds collide, but neither expected the events that would follow, or the changes they would both go through.
220 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 3, 2018
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June 1, 2022
A novel involving racist skinheads and their bete noir, ‘pakis’ ( their label for anyone from the Indian subcontinent with a non white skin tone) and the ‘reds’ of course.
The story line develops into fantasy, interesting and imaginative but increasingly hard to follow and the ending was bizarre. Read on kindle with some bad typos and worse, adding to the confusion. Readable nonetheless.
The story line develops into fantasy, interesting and imaginative but increasingly hard to follow and the ending was bizarre. Read on kindle with some bad typos and worse, adding to the confusion. Readable nonetheless.
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