The Prince of Wales (Paperback)

Female pimp Bobby Ranger decides it is finally time to track down the father who abandoned her before she was born. Meanwhile, business entrepreneur Leslie St Clair makes his last attempt to hit the big time, but his plans could be scuppered by revelations about his less than salubrious past. On his heels is local journalist Pete Duke. Already embroiled in divorce and a midlife crisis, he must decide whether to follow up what could be the story of his lifetime. All three characters fine their lives inextricably entangled in a a web of fate that leads back to a sordid period, to events that took place in an old disused cinema, now a theme pub, called The Prince of Wales.

Part love story, part thriller, and part search for identity, The Prince of Wales is the final book in John Williams' Cardiff trilogy, and is a gripping emotional drama.

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'Another fine cast of lowlife characters in the decaying inner city of Cardiff ... both an atmospheric portrait of a changing city and a compellingly readable drama of believable lives' — Mail on Sunday

‘Like Damon Runyon, John Williams captures the voices of the last-chancers, the near-losers, and the dispossessed, and gives them dignity and life’ —George P. Pelecanos

‘Cardiff has never been so vibrant as in Williams' seductive and strangely moving novels’ — Sunday Times