The Hard Game - Trevor Hoyle

Kyle Rossiter has built a fortune at the centre of London's lucrative hardcore pornography industry, earning £8,000 a week by exploiting performers, manipulating associates and staying one step ahead of the criminals who want a share of his empire. Ruthless, wealthy and almost entirely without conscience, he treats everyone around him as disposable, believing money can insulate him from both the law and the violent underworld his business attracts.

Trevor Hoyle's The Hard Game is a gritty crime novel that uses the pornography racket as a lens to explore organised crime, corruption, greed and moral compromise in 1970s Britain. More than simple pulp exploitation, it examines the human cost of an industry fuelled by power and exploitation, delivering a fast-moving thriller steeped in the seedier side of London's criminal economy.