"Dark and enveloping."
Daily express

During the long Pentecost holiday weekend of 1964, bands of mods and rockers challenge each other in Brighton, southern England. Also arriving in town is the young and ambitious detective Vince Treadwell of the London Police. Vince has been removed from the capital by his superiors for obstructing the closure of an investigation, and has been sent to Brighton, his hometown, to deal with the macabre discovery of a decapitated, mutilated and wrapped in a tarp that has been on the beach. Along with the body a knife has been found that still has some fingerprints, and an anonymous call accuses Jack Regent (formerly Jacques Rinieri), a well-known gangster, head of the local Corsican mafia, who has disappeared without a trace. In the midst of this growing criminal tangle, Vince falls in love with Regent's girlfriend, the attractive and very young Bobbie LaVita, singer at the Blue Orchid club and the only possible link to find the mobster ...
The novel transcends the headlines of the time about the mythical fights between mods and rockers and enters the underworld of a dangerous criminal organization, in the recently established drug trafficking networks, in police corruption, pornography and the darker side of the sixties music business.