Inside Straight

Graham Ellis is reliable, efficient, focused – the best pit boss Sovereign Casinos has, even if he does say so himself.

But rumours of mental instability, along with the fallout of a particularly bloody night on the tables, relegate him to day shifts at a low-rent Salford club.

There he catches the attention of local gangster Barry Pollard, who has every intention of making Graham his inside man and is about to make him an offer he can’t refuse…