Brighton Rock (novel) Brighton Rock (novel) Charles "Fred" Hale comes to Brighton on assignment to distribute cards anonymously for a newspaper competition (a variant of "Lobby Lud"; in this case, the name of the person to be spotted is "Kolley Kibber"). The antihero of the novel, Pinkie Brown, is a teenage sociopath and up-and-coming gangster. Hale had betrayed the former leader of the gang Pinkie now controls, by writing an article in the "Daily Messenger" about a slot machine racket for which the gang was responsible. Ida Arnold, a plump, kind-hearted and decent woman, is drawn into the action by a chance meeting
Viv Graham shooting. He was shot three times by an unidentified gunman, (one shot leaving a large hole in his back), but managed to drag himself back to Wallsend High Street, where he was found by fellow bouncer, Terry Scott. In spite of him receiving thirty pints of blood, Viv Graham died at North Tyneside General Hospital four hours later, aged just 34. He is buried at Hookergate Cemetery. He had received a telephone death threat just hours before he was shot. Viv Graham had often prophetically predicted that he, "wouldn't see 40". He had curtailed the activities of several narcotics based