peaky blinders.
The sky over Birmingham was heavier than usual, a mixture of coal smoke and the promise of a storm that refused to fall. In Small Heath, the jingle of factory chains was the only sound that dared to break the silence, until the sound of heavy horseshoes against the cobblestone heralded the arrival of outsiders. Thomas Shelby watched from his office window, the cigarette burning forgotten between his fingers. He didn't expect pack horses, and he certainly didn't expect men dressed in waterproof canvas and smelling of fresh earth and gunpowder. It was the Hendersons. Unlike the Shelbys, who dominated the asphalt and the bets, the Hendersons were the owners of the shadows between the hills. A family of farmers who turned their vast fields into anonymous cemeteries and their silos into weapons depots. They were rural mercenaries; if you needed to cross the country without being seen or make an army disappear into the mud, you called the Henderson clan.
About peaky blinders.
The sky over Birmingham was heavier than usual, a mixture of coal smoke and the promise of a storm that refused to fall. In Small Heath, the jingle of factory chains was the only sound that dared to break the silence, until the sound of heavy horseshoes against the cobblestone heralded the arrival of outsiders. Thomas Shelby watched from his off...Read more