May 1997. Election night. Blair's New Labour is predicted to win with a landslide. It feels like a new start for everyone, the grey days of sleaze are over. There's a new hope that things really are about to get better. But not for Aidan. He's a reporter whose life and career are going nowhere, relegated to a backwater job within the paper, existing on a diet of fast food and with virtually every day starting with a stinking hangover. He's clinging on to his job by his fingernails. Then, after a terrifying road-rage incident, the story of his life drops in his lap. It looks like the chance to make his name and salvage his career. But within 24 hours his best friend is dead, and he's forced to work with Suzie, a combative, abrasive, ambitious younger colleague whilst the most powerful gangster in Manchester hunts Aidan armed with a weapon no one can resist.