A pacy novel about leather-clad men on fast bikes. Jay likes to keeps his thrills simple; racing the fall-line home so that he can watch the sun set twice, sex on the sofa with his girlfriend, week-end runs up North with the boys. Things begin to go downhill when one of the boys, Stu, bleeds to death in a drunken accident, and Jay's life suddenly seems to be full of new complications, as well as some old ones that he'd been avoiding.

Stu's distraught sister asks Jay and his mates for help; she believes that Carno, a local business man, needs to pay for her brother's death. Carno happens to be the same man who killed Jay's dad thirteen years earlier. In this small Welsh community, memories can run long, grudges can accelerate fast, and soon Jay finds himself having to question how much he knows the men he rides with past the leathers and fast bikes.