num_pages: 250
description: Pinkie, a boy gangster in the pre-war Brighton underworld, is a Catholic dedicated to evil and damnation. In a dark setting of double-crossing and razor slashes, his ambitions and hatreds are horribly fulfilled ... until Ida determines to convict him of murder. But Pinkie, on the run from her pursuing fury, becomes even more dangerous ...
language: English
title: Brighton Rock
titlecomplete: Brighton Rock
characters: Phil Corkery, Rose, Colleoni, Ida Arnold, Pinkie Brown, Fred Hale
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Crime, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 31062
places: Brighton, England
publisher: Penguin