This book revolves primarily around the lives of an extended Essex family. Extended to include work colleagues, members of the 'gang' and others. Extended to include friends, both male and female. Dean Bold is the owner of a haulage company. He lives with his wife and family in Canvey Island. He has a mortgage, school fees to pay and drives a car. His wife, Gina, owns a beauty salon, through which he launders a little money. Not much, but some. For most of Dean Anthony Bold's life, he just does stuff. Goes to the pub, goes to work, goes home. Scenes move from Canvey Island to the Costa Blanca, to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in north Africa, to Venezuela and the home of one of South America's wealthiest and most ruthless cocaine barons. Links are maintained by a semi-feral Spanish heiress whose hunger for excitement and wealth is matched only by her sexual appetite. There are links to the IRA and several other branches of international crime, including rival London and Essex gangs and drug dealers from the Netherlands. This book contains episodes of what Dean does. He laughs, he cries, he loves, he drives, he snorts coke, he beats people half to death, he makes millions, he goes to bed. His relationships with both his family and his gang are central to the plot and human interaction plays a big part in the development of the novel and its characters. Sex and violence abound, yet the vulnerability of the main protagonists is never far from the surface and as law enforcers get ever closer to law breakers, the book erupts into a gripping climax, leaving the reader wanting more.