Revenge by Eric Brown was published in 2007. It’s different from the author’s usual fare, in the past I’ve read some of his SF and crime fiction set in the 1950s. Revenge has a contemporary setting though.

Dan Radford is a famous professional footballer, earning tens of thousands a week, and has everything that goes with it, a large house, fast cars and no money problems. However, he has a drink problem and his beautiful girlfriend has had enough of it, she walks out on him.

He goes on a self-pitying bender which results in his life spiralling out of control as he gets involved in all sorts of crimes.

This was a good read, although it’s very short at just 115 pages of quite large print, so I read it in one go.