Pretty Dangerous: A story of hormones, hand bags and hand guns

by Stephen Haughan

Thrown together by circumstance, three young girls forge an unbreakable friendship during their deprived upbringing on a run down Essex estate, learning to duck and dive at an early age to survive on the mean unforgiving streets. Tougher than most boys their age, the girls survive a brutal catholic education to emerge as young adults intent on building a better life for themselves and their families at all cost, legal or otherwise. Shamelessly brazen and untamed, the three friends and their dismissive respect for authority embark on a life of petty crime to fuel their retail addiction, a life that would rapidly spiral out of control and bring them face to face with wealthy Arab Sheiks, government ministers, South London mobsters and a Psychopathic Japanese war lord. Deborah Dawson or Dee Dee as she likes to be known, with her fight not flee approach to life leads her two cohorts on an alcoholic roller coaster ride of sex and violence that would shake the criminal underworld and the British government to it’s very core.

444 pages, Paperback

Published December 12, 2013

About the author

Stephen Haughan, born in East London in 1965 the middle of three brothers. Although a skilled multi-tradesman Steve discovered a love for writing after the birth of his children, he picked up the pen one christmas and began a series of short stories for them and was immediately bitten by the literary bug.
Having left school with no formal qualifications Stephen drew on his love of comedy and drama as the inspiration for his written works.
A trilogy following the early lives of three close Essex girl friends was penned between 2012 and 2014 receiving numerous five star reviews on Amazon before moving onto a project at the opposite end of the literary spectrum, Peshwari Nans, the tale of two eighty something sisters Esther and Minnie and their classic car Vivien, together they embark on an epic quest to Raipur in central India to fulfil the dying wish of a dear friend.