Book description
Armed Candy is the true story of one woman's struggle for
survival on Britain's meanest streets.
Kay has spent her whole life trying to escape. Sexually abused by
her grandmother, she pleaded to return to her mother's care. But
instead of finding a safe haven, Kay entered a world of drug abuse,
swinging and dabbling in the occult. Although still a small child, she
was soon buying drugs for her mother and being moved out of her bed as
orgies ensued in her home.
When she tried to escape, she ended up in a violent marriage, from
which she fled in fear of her life. Turning to her mother for help,
she was tricked into prostitution, her own mother acting much like a pimp.
Kay became a high-class call girl, but then, through a chance
meeting, she got involved with the most dangerous criminal gang in
Glasgow. Women associated with such gangs are often seen as decorative
arm candy, but Kay
was admitted to the inner core, where she became involved in making
decisions of life and death.
She fell in love with the gang's equaliser, a young man feared
throughout the country, and together they formed a formidable
partnership. But they were too successful, and when they appeared to
threaten some powerful interests they had to be taken out. The day
that Kay's lover was gunned down in broad daylight saw the beginning
of a reign of death in the city, as the organised crime world became
paranoid and turned in on itself. For Kay, it was the beginning of her
way out.
Reg McKay is the highly successful author of
None So Pretty: The
Sexing of Rebecca Pine
;
The Ferris Conspiracy
and
Deadly Divisions
with Paul Ferris; and
Indictment
with T. C. Campbell.
