Strange Days

Frustrated by his mundane job and lack of musical success, singing and playing in a pub band is 25 year old Callum Rennie’s only real escape from his humdrum existence. After falling into a frozen lake attempting to rescue a trapped boy, Cal awakes to find himself inhabiting the body of a battered stranger and encounters a former prostitute, Rosie, who claims to be his guardian angel. He learns that due to a ‘celestial misunderstanding’, his soul has been locked out of his own physical body, and until they find a way to solve the problem, it has been temporarily placed into the remains of another Cal (Calvin) Rennie, a rent boy who died in suspicious circumstances 1964. Faced with no choice, Callum quickly discovers that Sixties Glasgow is a far cry from the groovy hip of swinging London. After a close shave with the Gemmell Brothers, a vicious criminal gang who believe that Calvin is dead, Callum flees South to London to seek a new life. After a series of dead-end jobs, and life in the swinging Sixties far from swinging, Cal wastes no time accepting an offer to join a struggling R&B band. The ‘Barracudas’ are a pretty tight outfit yet lack the talent to write decent pop material but with Callum's(AKA Jack Dallas) catalogue of future pop songs it isn’t long before they become one of the hottest new bands around. However, just when he thinks life couldn’t get any better and that his secret identity has been well and truly buried, Cal discovers the shocking truth about Calvin's past and finds himself facing a blackmail threat that could destroy everything he has achieved. To add to his problems the Gemmell Brothers, having discovered Jack Dallas’s true identity, arrive in London seeking recompense and bloody revenge.

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