'Hit & Run' by Doug Johnstone - Book review

'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 much acclaimed 'Smokeheads', Doug Johnstone, comes 'Hit & Run', which is to be published in March by Faber and Faber. From the start, the reader is sucked into Billy's nightmare as his life takes so many twists and turns that it actually resembles a car out of control. As Billy tries to cope with the guilt of what he has done, his efforts to deal with his feelings only lead him into an ever increasing nightmare journey, on which the reader rapidly becomes a passenger. This is Johnstone's best yet. It is so well written that you start to image that you were with Billy on that fateful drive.
If you haven't read any of Doug Johnstone's books yet, I would suggest that you do so. He is becoming one of Edinburgh's finest. If you have read any of his books, you will know what to expect. You will not be disappointed.