Compulsion - Softcover

Hutson, Shaun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330370529 ISBN 13: 9780330370523

Publisher: Pan Books, 2002

Synopsis

A gang of teenage youngsters is running riot on the streets. Responsible for a number of burglaries and car thefts, the police are at their wits' end trying to put a stop to the gang's activities. Terror and hatred have become part of everyday life for local residents and, just when it seems things cannot get any worse, the gang targets Shelby House - an old people's home.

Supervisor Veronica Porter, her two staff and the nine elderly residents become the gang's most vulnerable victims yet as the thugs conduct a hate campaign against them, sending abusive mail, daubing graffiti on walls and shattering windows. The intimidation escalates until Veronica's own father is dragged into the scene of terror when, disturbing some of the gang members burgling his house he is put into a coma. But enough is enough. The senior citizens of Shelby House decide to take the law into their own hands and fight back...

About this title

Book Description:

'Shaun Hutson has positioned himself as the king of the dark, urban novel' Big Issue

About the Author:

Shaun Hutson is a bestselling author of horror fiction and has written novels under many different pseudonyms including Warhol's Prophecy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0330370529
• ISBN 13: 9780330370523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500