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Runaway

Peter May

2015327 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015Quercus Publishing · ENGISBN 9781782062271
  • 2015424 pages · ENGISBN 9781780874555
  • 2016327 pages · ENGISBN 9781623657895
  • 2017Quercus NA · 432 pages · ENGISBN 9781681443058

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.

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AtmosphereNoir

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