"Laconic and confident... a wonderfully dark debut." IAN MOORE (Follet Valley series / Juge Lombard) MANCHESTER. SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR... Shaun Mullin needs to find peace. Restore some equilibrium. Lay a few demons to rest. But it won't happen here. After a frenetic career working for the tabloids in London, journalist Shaun Mullin has come home. He hopes his new job at The Manchester Herald will afford him a quiet descent into retirement. No such luck. Trouble still has a way of finding him, it seems. A simple favour for an old acquaintance pulls Shaun inexorably into the web of one of the city's most notorious criminals - as well as that of a terrifying newcomer. As he struggles to free himself from the grip of gangland Manchester, he must straddle the lines between crime and the law, good and evil... and life and death. The Fight in the Dog is a rich thriller populated by vivid characters and a strong northern sensibility. It is the first in a five-book 'redbrick noir' series featuring Shaun Mullin.