Last Night at Compton's

By Patrick Hawkes and Mr Patrick Hawkes

A banker. A barman. A summer of bad decisions.

Dan has spent his twenties building a fortress of respectability: a high-paying hedge fund job in the City, a pristine flat in Pimlico, and a sensible relationship with his girlfriend, Georgia. He is a man of structure, assets, and carefully calculated risks.

But when Georgia leaves for a summer in Australia, the cracks in Dan's facade begin to show. Restless and hollowed out by the corporate grind, he wanders into a Soho bar and meets Nico-a chaotic, beautiful, intellectual barman who lives in the margins.

What begins as a way to kill time quickly spirals into a consuming obsession. Nico is everything Dan is not: feral, uninhibited, and dangerously alive. From the neon-soaked streets of Soho to the sweaty dancefloors of Vauxhall, Dan is pulled into a blissful, hedonistic twilight zone where the only thing that matters is the next drink and the next moment with Nico.

But the summer cannot last forever. As autumn approaches and reality threatens to return, Dan faces an impossible choice between the safety of the life he built for himself and the terrifying, beautiful chaos of the gutter.

A brutal, beautiful love story about the lies we tell ourselves and the wreckage we leave behind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3BDJQKN
• ISBN13: 9798275352559
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"