Book description
Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of
them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits
someone in the night. In a panic, they all decide to drive off. But
the next day Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the
local paper. It turns out the dead man was Edinburgh's biggest crime
lord and, as Billy struggles with what he's done, he is sucked into a
nightmare of guilt, retribution and violence. From the author of the
acclaimed Smokeheads, Hit & Run is another pitch-black
psychological thriller.
Doug Johnstone is the author of three novels, most recently
Smokeheads (2011), described in The Times as 'a hugely atmospheric
thriller soaked in the spirit of life'. Writer in residence at the
University of Strathclyde, he is also a freelance journalist, a
songwriter and musician, and has a PhD in nuclear physics. He lives in Edinburgh.
