
"The passion, the vices, the violence of the London district known as West 11"
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Joe Beckett

Ilsa Barnes

Richard Dyce

Georgia

Mrs. Beckett

Mrs. Hartley

Gash

Mildred Dyce

Silent

Jacko

Larry
Father Hogan

Father Dominic

Speaker

Mr. Royce
Geoffrey
Phyl

Diana
Bullying Youth

Bullying Youth

Customer

Customer

Schoolteacher

Partygoer
Partygoer

Partygoer

Girl

Football Supporter

Man at Bus Stop
Man at Bus Stop
