Chapter 6
Lying around in a hospital bed is a really boring thing to do once the drugs wear off; at least Adam always found it so. So when the man in the bed beside him offered Adam his prepaid TV card as he was about to be discharged, Adam accepted and turned on the news.
He was greeted by images of shops burning in Tottenham, black balaclava wearing youths smashing shop windows in Manchester, and looters running out of shops with bags full of stolen goods in the West End of London.
Of which Adam had heard nothing.
The shot cut to the anchor as she commentated upon the riots.
“It appears that these riots are in response to the shooting of a young man in London by the police yesterday, but how and why they had spread across the UK and why so many who would never have known of the exis
