By Any Means Necessary by Stephen Sayers

Author:Stephen Sayers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Britain’s Next Bestseller

“If one receives evil from another, let one not do evil in return.”

Enemy Mine

Chapter Twenty

Newcastle Upon Tyne,

Tyne and Wear

Patrick Campbell studied Jack Hudson intently whilst he prepared drinks for them both. Campbell considered him one of Thatcher’s clichéd Essex men: entrepreneurial, insurgent and weary of the failed quasi-socialist politics of the post-war decades. He, like many people who voted Conservative for the first time in 1979, was restless for change. He understood it to a certain extent.

Already halfway through the eighties and the decade had pronounced itself as extraordinarily exciting when compared to its predecessor. With the promise of mobile, handheld technology for making phone calls, home entertainment systems and the wearing of seatbelts in cars set to become mandatory, they were living in a time convulsed by a social, cultural and political counter-revolution. It was an ideal opportunity for men like Jack Hudson to capitalise on an already established power base.

The eighties suited him down to the ground; from the violence on the football terraces to the riots on the inner-city streets, Jack Hudson had made certain he was exactly where he needed to be, every single time. He had learnt everything he knew from watching his old man. Ray Hudson had been an all-round nasty bastard. Never one to shy away from a dodgy deal, the odd murder and knocking his wife around, when he’d died, no one had been particularly heartbroken. His wife had remarried almost straight away, using her deceased husband’s illicitly earned wealth to carve out a comfortable future for herself, forgetting she had a small boy who needed her love and attention. That child grew up to realise the world only made sense if you forced it to.

By the time his mother Iris had died, Jack was a young man, angry at the world and intent on showing others that the only way to survive was to take what you wanted, answer to no one and ensure that anyone who disagreed with you either fell in line or fell off the radar. What happened to his stepfather remained an unsolved murder, though Patrick didn’t need a slide ruler and a pencil to work out what had happened to him.

The more he thought about it, the more Campbell could see how Hudson’s current self-professed ownership of Newcastle was inevitable. Now was the time for innovation. Pop music, inspired by the ‘anything is possible’ attitude of punk and the David Bowies of the world had already changed the way music would forever be made. Wall Street was churning out stockbrokers by the day who believed they could do anything with money that didn’t belong to them, a conceit that Campbell could only see biting everyone back in the arse in a few decades. Jack Hudson was thriving in a world that was coarse and reactionary, choosing not to change what existed in their somewhat superficial society but rather to prosper in it. And Patrick Campbell was just fine with that, as it meant he could also take what he wanted.

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