"Sharpish in dialogue, slick in characterization . . . made with sympathy and imagination." - Times Literary Supplement "A very lively and entertaining novel." - Sunday Times "Flows along at an entertaining speed." - Guardian "Honest and unusual." - Spectator "A fast-moving romp." - Observer Thirty-year-old Franko Baxter has an uncomplicated life. He shares a flat with his Gran and works for a shady unlicensed minicab company, a job he likes because it gives him plenty of free time for his true passion: playing football. But things start to get more complicated when Franko gets involved with three of his passengers: Shuggy, a conceited young football star, Zak, a dropout on the dole with a nymphomaniac wife and three kids, and Joff Howard, a bisexual BBC producer. His life begins to get progressively crazier, but the biggest surprise is yet to come. Suddenly Franko finds himself entangled in a police investigation into the murder of a gay man -...