Tim I guess it goes without saying didn't have much of a family structure. You see a lot of that in America now, there are a lot of people with not much of a family base. That's something I'll be real interested to see. I don't know that this is necessarily a pro-skinhead book. I guess I could see some skinheads really digging it and some others not liking it at all.
Racial conflicts are prominent in the story.
Although the gang Alex is in is bitterly antagonistic towards neo-nazi skinhead gangs, I suggest that the subject is just too sensitive to escape causing offence altogether. He nods when I say this - however, he's in no doubt that it's a subject that should be discussed. In America it seems no matter how politically correct your message is, they'd rather you just not broach the subject. My personal hope is that everyone gets along ultimately, but I don't think it will happen by forcing people to get along, or pretending that everybody gets along. It certainly won't happen by looking at everything in black and white.