Born in prison to an abusive, teenage, drug-addict mother, sixteen-year-old Degsy survived a violent, horrendous childhood, only to end up in and out of jail himself, but he's finally getting out, and he's determined to stay out this time.
He may be roughing it on the snowy streets of London with no one for company but Sadface, the three-legged dog he saved from the bins, but he's determined to keep his nose clean. He can't go back to prison, not again. He has to make a better life for himself. And he wants to help others, too: young people in gangs, like he was, the homeless, the elderly - he can't bear the thought of them getting beaten up or feeling like prisoners in their own homes.
He wants to change the world ... but the world has other ideas.
See, little kids are going missing and no one cares. MR-K, a known crime lord, must be behind it all, but no one can find him, and Degsy is slowly dragged into a dangerous game that will land him back in prison if he makes a wrong move and threaten the lives of the people that are slowly becoming his family.
