Mortal Coil

Matthew Moriarty has messed things up before, but not on this scale. When he helps out a friend by working in a nightclub, he gets on the wrong side of the wrong man - local gangster Bernie Mueller. Kicking him out of the club was one thing, but then screwing his wife? Not a good idea. Mutilated and beaten within an inch of his life, Moriarty sinks into a world of pain and drug addiction. Then, when he's bouncing along the bottom, he gets another call for help. An old friend, Ju Flaherty, enigmatic, crazy and talented and once the bright hope of British pop music, has disappeared half-way through recording his great come-back album. The record company needs to find him, and Moriarty seems like their best hope. The search leads Moriarty into mortal danger, and back into the roots of friendship, and on to a final confrontation with an old enemy.