‘Tightening His Grip’ is Book 2 in ‘The Main Man Trilogy’. A contemporary novel for the NA/crossover market, it has a Nature or Nurture theme, laced with suspense and black humour.Darren is now studying PPE at Oxford University, and although continuing his amoral lifestyle, he dreams of a future at Westminster – assuming that he can keep his murky past (and present) buried.Joel – still living in their home town, and married to Darren’s ex-girlfriend Grace – expects to be free of his adversary at last. But when he approaches the local building company for the interior design contract, he finds that Darren has inherited the business from his late father. And Darren has no intention of helping to advance Joel’s career. There are too many scores still to be settled, and revenge is uppermost in Darren’s mind. And then a secret is revealed about Joel’s parentage.The enemies become locked in a power struggle.But who will emerge as the Main Man?