Adam Price was a policeman. Too many years spent in Traffic dealing with incidents where the ambulance was less important than the shovel and the bag, too many lives brutally curtailed, so much blood; each drop eroded his soul until he had to come indoors and away from fresh nightmares, for the old ones were already too much to bear. He had never wanted to be a copper; he had wanted to be a nurse. Anyway, that was in the past, and without alcohol, how could he sleep?
He was slowly committing suicide by bottle, his friends cut off, but in the end they wouldn't let him go. First, Ginny tore into his life like a force of nature, and then others followed in her turbulent wake.His music came back to him, but there was still darkness in his world, still corruption, and abuse, and when children are found to be involved his old needs refuse to stay hidden.
There is still the music, though, and dancing, friendship and love, as well as cycling.