Missing in Acton — Jerry Raine

Vincent Company drives hire-cars by day, and lives alone in a studio flat in Acton. One evening while out for food Vincent stops at the Poco Loco cafe and starts talking to a blonde called Petra. Things progress quickly, and before he knows it, Vincent is approached by two strange men who want him to do them a favour. Meanwhile, just a few streets away, two young men are planning a robbery that hasn't much chance of turning a profit. Set in west London, 'Missing in Acton' is a low-key crime novel in the style of Raine's acclaimed first novel 'Smalltime'. As Vincent gets caught up in the local character's lives, he realises that two's company but three's a crowd.