Hennessy lived in London: grafted, struggled and eked out his days in a London respectable people are careful never to see. A construction site world of 'kerbside sweat, open-cut trenches, timbered shafts'. A bleak, desolate world of whisky-dulled pain, casual brutality and corruption.
But Hennessy planned a change to his station in life. An abrupt and violent change.
But Hennessy planned a change to his station in life. An abrupt and violent change.