The Olympics of Suffering (Paperback)

Recovering from addiction and apathy, Mike flees the poverty of his hometown in search of reinvention. After making his way south to London he finds a ghost of the past he is desperate to bury, sleeping in a tunnel. Once the wild and teasing object of Mike's desire, Lara is now a desperate addict, reduced to selling her body for a fix. Caught between compassion and the memory of lust, Mike plucks her from the streets, vowing to get her clean. As Mike tries to establish himself in a new life and as Lara comes out of her drug-induced haze, old tensions and old ghosts come back to haunt them, as the lines between sex and violence, and between lust and obsession blur. Desperate to escape his past, Mike learns that shallow graves keep no secrets and that when the past comes knocking the worst thing you can do is invite it in.<br>