Identify

Nick - a sixteen year-old outsider who pledges his life to the tribal allure of the Side music scene.

Alice - a precocious schoolgirl with iron in her eyes and precocious wit.

Tyra - a chic reporter grown old too soon, a hard shellac veneer concealing her fear, doubt and determination.

A noxious future. A city by the river, full of half-known threats and unknown opportunities. Three characters who are flawed enough to be believable and honourable enough to believe in. Hope, desperation, love, death. An engrossing story which will grab you in a chokehold until the final devastating page.

Identify is a near-future thriller set in a nauseously plausible world. Nick, a recalcitrant teenager, is fanatically devoted to the cult-like Side label. Stabbed and left for dead in an alley by a rival gang, he wakes up in a box estate – a towering slum made from reinforced cardboard. Nick is nursed back to health by pragmatic Alice, who conspires with him to hide the attack from his parents. Jaded music writer Tyra travels to Paris to track down the elusive Side Records, setting all three on a path of discovery, peril, and potential destruction.