Runaway: THE GRIPPING STANDALONE NOVEL, INSPIRED BY THE AUTHOR''S OWN LIFE

Peter May: Over 3 Million Copies Sold Worldwide The Gripping Standalone Novel, Inspired By The Author's Own Life 'a Terrific Writer Doing Something Different' Mark Billingham 'from The First Page I Knew I Was In Safe Hands' Sophie Hannah Five Dreams Of Fame Glasgow, 1965. Jack Mackay Dares Not Imagine A Life Of Predictability And Routine. The Headstrong Seventeen-year-old Has One Thing On His Mind - London - And Successfully Convinces His Four Friends, And Fellow Band Mates, To Join Him In Abandoning Their Homes To Pursue A Goal Of Musical Stardom. Five Decades Of Fear 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 The Cruel Fate That Befell Him And His Friends Some Fifty Years Before, And How He Did And Did Not Act When It Mattered Most - A Memory He Has Run From All His Adult Life. London, 2015. A Man Lies Dead In A Bedsit. His Killer Looks On, Remorseless. What Started With Five Teenagers Five Decades Before Will Now Be Finished. Loved Runaway? Read The Blackhouse, Book 1 In The Million-selling Lewis Trilogy Love Peter May? Order His New Thriller, A Silent Death 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. In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet before year's end three returned, and returned damaged. In 2015, a brutal murder forces those three men, now in their sixties, to journey back to London and finally confront the dark truth they have run from for five decades. Runaway is a crime novel covering fifty years of friendships solidified and severed, dreams shared and shattered and passions lit and extinguished; set against the backdrop of two unique and contrasting cities at two unique and contrasting periods of recent history. Vijftig jaar nadat een vijftal jongens Glasgow verliet en naar Londen vetrok om daar na avontuur en tegenslag als band uit elkaar te gaan, brengt een nieuwsbericht over een moord hen weer bij elkaar