RAWHEAD — David Bowker

Struggling author BILLY DYE accepts a commission to ghost the memoirs of Manchester gang boss Malcolm Priest. But Priest soon wearies of Billy and his big mouth and orders his execution. The hitman, RAWHEAD, turns out to be a schoolfriend Billy hasn't seen for twenty years. So he spares Billy's life and hides him away in an old dark house.And, as the violence escalates and the bodies mount up, Billy learns that his old friend is a terrifying psychopath who will literally stop at nothing to protect him...'A tough, fabulous, smart-mouth novel'LEE CHILD writing in THE NEW YORK TIMES