Martin Renshaw, aged 18, flees the unemployment of Liverpool to find work in London, but instead he joins the ranks of the homeless. This novel describes the maladies of contemporary London which he encounters as he moves from squats to shelters exposing the plight of the inner city. A former journalist with the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express newspapers, Derek Lambert has written four volumes of autobiography and many novels including Vendetta, Triad and The Man Who Was Saturday.