Be a Good Boy

the long version

An infinitely entertaining thriller about a would-be pizza baron who dabbles in extortion and finds himself mired in murder. Gideon was young, callow, and very ambitious. He'd left his London job for Cragness, a resort town on the English coast where he planned to set up his own pizza business on the beach. All he needed was money and a van. Surely Towser, his former employer and a fence, could be black-mailed out of 1,000 pounds and wheels. But no sooner did Gideon arrive than he became an unwilling "Hero of the Hour" by rescuing a drowning child. To make matters worse, he found himself double-crossed by his own intended victim.