CRACKER: BEST BOYS
by Gareth Roberts
This fifth novelization of the popular television series, and the second by Roberts (Cracker: To Be a Somebody, 1999), saddles the irascible nipper Dr. Edward Fitzgerald, the forensic psychiatrist who's better at seeing into the hearts of men than at walking a chalk line, with a failing marriage and an infant son. But Fitz is still doing better than factory worker Stuart Grady and neophyte Bill Nash, whose friendship proves truly fatal.