num_pages: 256
description: Deadwater begins with the murder of a prostitute in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. The novel's protagonist, the alcoholic pharmacist Jack Farissey, wakes up the next morning in blood-stained clothes on a plastic sheet and no memory of what happened the night before. Lucky for Jack that the police soon finger local gangster Carl Baja for the murder. As the city crumbles, Farissey looks into his own heart of darkness and that of his childhood friend, the musician Jess Simmonds.
language: English
title: Deadwater
titlecomplete: Deadwater
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Serpent's Tail