{"product_id":"9781906755485","title":"Needs Must","description":"Eddy Hilton leaves the army and joins a detective agency in Manchester at a time when drugs are changing the face of the city. Max Ferrar, the owner, is nasty in every sense of the word. He runs the place like a personal fiefdom and takes on the kind of assignments others won't touch. Eddy would have preferred something a little more civilised, but he'd been a chef in the army, not a commando - he couldn't be choosy.\u003cbr\u003eThere are plusses, too. Though Max is as self-serving and interfering as most bosses seem to be, a man backed, not by an army but a couple of ex-football hooligans and a twenty-year-old skally, is hardly a threat. He is also careless. Eddy finds he can create pockets of un-policed time - time he can call his own. After more than twenty years following orders this freedom is more valuable to Eddy than status.\u003cbr\u003eEddy is assigned to find Lauren Lockhart the missing wife of Chaz, a charismatic Martial Arts teacher with a gym in Moss Side. At last he has something worthwhile to do. But the city has changed since he left. He encounters characters and customs that are as strange to him as those of any foreign country. There is danger too. Eddy finds himself questioning the rules he has previously lived by and finding new ones. Not conventions that have been handed down to him, but values put together from his own hard earned experience.","brand":"Spinetinglers Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047703331056,"sku":"9781906755485","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906755485_p0.jpg?v=1763617589","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906755485","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}