A Bad boy is a novel in 5 sections: 1. Sam O’Reilly is a juvenile delinquent. Andy Jones is a shopkeeper with his own problems, but tries to prevent the Sam from turning into an evil man. When Sam at 18 pleads guilty to raping a 13 year old girl, Andy believes he has failed. Eventually Andy is persuaded to investigate. 2. Andy finds love for the second time, but the course of true love is rarely completely smooth. 3. Andy and Sarah go on a their honeymoon in Europe with the children. This section has illustrations. Andy displays several of his hidden talents and becomes a hero. 4. Sarah's son Peter falls in love with his cousin and also becomes a hero winning the Cross of Valour. 5. Peter joins the navy: Civilization as we know it ends. A Bad Boy is the first book of the Bad Boy Cycle. The Bad Boy Cycle A Bad Boy Ali the Peacemaker ExtraSolar Menace Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence These 4 books tell the story of the Human race from 1995 to 2214, mostly told from the perspective of successive generations of the Jones Family and their friends. At each stage the technology is that of the period. The first part is in the recent past, so the technology is what we are familiar with. In the early parts of the 21st century, the technology is largely based on extension of the current technology. Later in the century, there are some basic new inventions. This means that the cycle become science fiction although this only starts to become obvious about four fifths of the way through the first book when the effects of Global Warming become quite different from the predictions. This book contains no erotica.