Shilka Shamrock

No Second Prize Shilka Shamrock

Jack the lad from Battersea South West London Danny Angel is a master butcher working at Smithfield Meat Markets. So cruelly let down in love, his life plummeted out of control; one bad decision was followed by another. In the Salvation Army Rehab in Hastings, he heard a song 'No Second Prize' written and sung by Jimmy Barnes. Performed by the Scottish born Australian Rock Legend 'The Working Class Man' the song saved his life. Jimmy Barnes was to become his mentor with the words sung in his songs. The painting hanging on this living room wall controls his obsessive-compulsive pedantic disorder. The girl with the strawberry blond hair looking back at him, she mesmerizes him, she has a calming effect. Danny's life was about to take a drastic change. He gets himself involved in a very bad situation with a local dangerous villain Victor Parstanac the mad Russian and has to go into hiding with his family and friends and he eventually moves to the other side of the world onto the North Island of New Zealand. Here he finds his true self and who he really is! All the time Danny is one jump ahead from Claude Saxon a pursuing Fleet Street high profile investigative journalist known as the 'Geezer'. The last year of Danny's life has been so traumatic for him. He's vowed that he will never get involved with another girl, and never have his heart broken again!