A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, fighting for leadership, is only seventeen, yet he has already proved his ruthlessness in the brutal killing of Hale,a journalist. Untouched by human feeling, Pinkie is a figure of pure evil. Beleiving himself unassailable, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge Hale's death. In this gripping thriller Graham Greene exposes a world of loneliness, pain and fear, of live lived on "the dangerous edge of things".