In 1951 the Festival of Britain marks a new golden age of hope and
prosperity for the country. Things are certainly looking up for the
criminal elite who run the East End. For Jack, a draft-dodger with
aspirations to be a champion boxer, there's easy money to be made
for providing a bit of muscle. Meanwhile his sister Kath must keep
secret the fact that she killed their father to protect her son,
Brian, from the abuse she experienced as a child. Brian is so
traumatised by witnessing this event that the complex union of
violence and sexuality will shape his character for life. As the
years go by and disillusion sets in, successive Labour and Tory
governments aren't able to stop the rot. Younger, nastier criminals
like the Kray twins and the Richardson brothers begin to carve out
their own criminal empires and crush all resistance. Brutalised and
embittered by years of failure and imprisonment, Jack decides to
make a stand. The stage is set for one big war. Crime and
Punishment is the first volume in a two-part epic, and follows the
characters' lives up until the accession of Thatcher. The second
volume will trace the dramatic changes in criminal society that
reflected the wider social upheaval of the times, right up until
the present day.
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