Benny Luck is the leader of the Blackpool Knights, a dangerous crew that enforces the will of The Pelican across the city's streets. The Pelican owns every brothel in the city and for three hundred miles in every direction. The girls are his girls. His interests are many, but his primary trade is skin. When Benny's teenage sister is attacked on a night out in the city, his reaction is swift and brutal. Among Blackpool's criminal underbelly, it's the only reaction that can preserve his name and reputation. But, for Benny, it's also one that causes events to spiral out of his control. In the midst of it all a mysterious stranger enters his world. He calls himself Grafton Halifax. This stranger has a knack for being in the right place at the right time and before long proves himself invaluable to Benny Luck and the Blackpool Knights. Trust grows quickly between the two men. There's only one problem. It's The Pelican that Grafton Halifax came to kill.