The cry of 'I want my money' invariably means that something is about to blow.

Max doesn't work. Now he's been offered a job - at the dole office.

It's the hot summer of 1976. Mega-flares. The dole office. Cider. And a riot.

Where's My Money? is a witty encounter with slacker culture in Bristol in the 1970s, set against the background of Max Redcliffe's day job in a dole office. For a time in the 1970s author Mike Manson worked as a dole clerk. 'This isn't my story,' he says. He has to. He signed the Official Secrets Act.

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