Deadwater Author:Sean Burke Deadwater begins with the murder of a prostitute in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. The novel's protagonist, the alcoholic pharmacist Jack Farissey, wakes up the next morning in blood-stained clothes on a plastic sheet and no memory of what happened the night before. Lucky for Jack that the police soon finger local gangster Carl Baja for the murder.... more » As the city crumbles, Farissey looks into his own heart of darkness and that of his childhood friend, the musician Jess Simmonds.« less