After the Bridge

Death or Glory? Who wins? Who survives? Who dies?

Two suicidal strangers, failing actor Owen Chard and traumatised Ukrainian refugee Becky Letts, postpone death on the Humber to honey-trap men. They make easy money zig zagging across the north of England until they reach Manchester when a blackmailing civil servant dies on Becky in a hotel room.

Owen, seduced by life-changing megabucks, fakes his death and steals the dead man's identity to con a quarter of million quid from a brain-damaged hero's trust fund. His impersonation is good, but doesn't fool a cynical cop, or the deceased's crazy self-harming granddaughter. Putin's pals, in the city sponsoring a world boxing championship showdown, are demanding the blackmailer's sex-pest list with menaces.

Will Owen and Becky rediscover their humanity in Manchester or drown in a sea of corruption and criminality?