Spencer's Risk

SPENCER'S RISK is a dark comic novel. Burnt out and broke, university Drama lecturer Spencer Leyton is a compulsive gambler, estranged from his wife and children and driving his career over a cliff. His some-time friend Justin invites him to a high-stakes poker game. ('Justin could sell snow to the Eskimos - literally. For some months he had sold cocaine to the Inuit community in Copenhagen'.) The game ends with Spencer owing £10,000 to Paula Malone, the head of a criminal gang. At work, Sp...