With a brutal hand, up-and-coming gangster Gordon Cutter and his associates are making a good living doing bad things. Cutter has big ambitions to expand his firm's operations in the north-east of England, and heaven help anyone who gets in his way.The Armstrong family's lives collide with Cutter's illicit dealings when he sets his sights on young Livvy. Flattered by the attention of this charming and successful older man, she doesn't see what seems clear only to her brother Jack - that Gordon Cutter is a very bad man indeed.With Cutter prepared to go to any lengths necessary to build and protect his criminal empire - and to eliminate any threat, even from inside his own firm - Jack is pushed to desperate measures to try to protect his family and bring the vicious crime boss to justice.This edition brings together the three novellas that make up the Cutter trilogy - Cutter's Deal, Cutter's Firm and Cutter's Fall - plus, as a bonus, 'Behind Blue Eyes', the short story featuring old-school gangster Howard Mackintosh and his deputy Big Liam Bradley, which got the whole thing started.The Cutter Trilogy contains extreme violence, cruelty and adult language.