Smack and Thistle

With a drugaddled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean as soon as hes seen to one final heist In the house that he burgles he comes across Elizabeth rich desperate hopelessly addicted to a heroin and unconscious Saving her from the clutched of an overdose Abel stays out of compassion which eventually evolves into attraction But when Abel takes on Elizabeth he also takes on her family His resolution to go straight has to go on the back burner while he struggles against a drugs conspiracy that stretched from the slums of the East End to the Houses of Parliament