Gangsters: Deathtouch

Gangsters: Deathtouch Death comes to Birmingham disguised as W.C. Fields John Kline s gone straight. Or he s trying to. The restaurant business isn t all he d hoped for not with his old nemesis Inspector Khan pulling the strings of the liquor licencing board. Khan s willing to cut a deal but he isn t the only one. Shadowy forces of conspiracy and counter-conspiracy converge, and Kline has a choice: play the respectable citizen or play his own game. By his side, Anne Darracott, off the needle but on guard. She and Kline share a history but not all of it. Meanwhile, a new danger rises in the east. The White Devil, a legend out of the arcane, death himself if death had a prehensile penis, anyway. One thing s for sure, Birmingham s changing Philip Martin s Gangsters: Deathtouch is the final instalment in a saga that began in 1976, with the cult classic BBC series. Uncompromising and anarchic, Gangsters combined realism with pulp fiction, social commentary with the absurd, winning the op...