Human Punk Author:John King For fifteen-year-old Joe Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae, disco, stolen cars, social-club lager, cut-throat Teds and a job picking cherries with the gypsies. Life is sweet - until the night he's beaten up and thrown in the Grand Union Canal with his best friend Smiles. Fast forward to 1988, and Joe is tra... more »velling on the Trans-Siberian Express after three years working in a Hong Kong bar, coming to terms with Smiles' suicide, remembering the highs and lows of the intervening years. Fast forward again to the present, and Joe is sitting pretty: earning a living as a DJ, selling records, fight tickets and homegrown dope. Life is sweet - until a face from the past forces him to re-live that night in 1977 and deal with the fallout.« less