Runaway

Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it matte...

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Main Author: May, Peter, 1951-2026
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Quercus, 2016.
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Summary:Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless. What started with five teenagers following a dream five decades before has been transformed over the intervening decades into a waking nightmare that might just consume them all.
Physical Description:327 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781623657895 (hardcover)
162365789X (hardcover)
Author Notes:Peter May is the multi award-winning author of numerous crime thrillers, including the internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy. May started his career as a journalist and went on to become of Scotland's most prolific television writers, with more than 1,000 credits to his name. He eventually left television to pursue his first love, writing novels. Born and raised in Scotland, May now lives in France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.