A story of the life and many loves of Sergeant David 'Smudge' Smith - the hero of The Falklands. The book tells the story of Smudge growing up in Sheffield, his early working life, his time in the Army and his work with children after demob.

Nina is serious trainee teacher, a science expert and a socialist. Her biggest hate is all forms of warfare. She takes her political views onto the streets in demonstrations during the late 1960s. Alex is a professional soldier, a sniper and believes everyone should stand on their own two feet. He thinks people who aren't satisfied with the world the way it is a lazy Bolshie. When you put them together the unexpected happens. They fall in love. But just as Alex gradually comes around to Nina's point of view and begins to question his chosen profession, she becomes frustrated with the tactics of the infamous Special Patrol Group and decides to fight back. What happens next is strange and unexpected as we are led through covert military operations, international terrorist attacks and shadowy back room deals with powerful people whose real identities are never known. Can their love survive?

Ron Jessop is a thief, a fraudster, a black marketeer and he may be a drug smuggler as well, his wife is an evil scheming Chinese prostitute, his true love is a Yorkshire dressmaker and his best friends are hired killers. And he's the kind and sympathetic hero of Buying the Programme. Ron is fixated on the idea of providing a good life for his beloved mother while his father is away during WWII and after his father's death on D Day, he works hard to try an establish himself as a businessman and we watch as he tries and tries again to realise his dream and is thwarted time and time again. We follow him from Yorkshire to Malaya in the 1950s after he is called-up for the Army, then onto Germany, into military prison and out to Yorkshire again, then Aden, Borneo and the mean streets of Ulster in the 1970s. It is Ron's indomitable spirit that keeps him getting up after each knock down and keeps him heading towards his dream of wealth and ease for his Mam. Contains some sexually explicit passages.