One Step Beyond – An urban thriller by Matt Ford

Mid-eighties England, poll tax, miner strikes, riots and war. The fascist movement is gaining momentum as disillusion spreads across the country.
Mal is a right-wing skinhead who lives in a world fuelled by hate and anger, both things he has in abundance.
Ashraf is a lonely Asian boy who’s only two friends work in the Comic Cave. Kate is the focus of his attention but shuns his clumsy advance. This, together with his failings at school and dismal home life, pushes him to rock bottom. Ejected onto the streets in the middle of a riot, he meets a gang of angry skinheads hell-bent on causing him harm…
Malcolm and Ashraf’s worlds collide, but neither expected the events that would follow, and the changes that they would go through.