Backlash

1973...... At 28 Crimson is in charge of the Brook empire. Her father Harry A, a famous Face in the London underworld, chose his daughter to take his place, after he was brutally murdered by his own brother George. The strongest of men feared her, although they desired her with the same power.....an ongoing feud continues with her sadistic uncle, and a gang of mobsters, all rivals for the equivalent stake....she faces interminable death threats and rape....one of her minders turns into a psychopathic torturer....someone is demonised......will she survive....will she ever learn her mother's secrets?

She is guided by preternatural encounters....forces that exist outside of the natural world...will Matilda's spiritual guidance save her?