Pure Angst

Bad blood and bitter memories spark a violent power struggle for the Muirhouse, Edinburgh drug empire. A restless new generation rises, kicking and screaming from their fathers' shadows, and ready to stamp their own identity on the city streets...Billy "Curtains" Wright overcomes dysfunctional beginnings to win the respect of the local gang, before rising to a key position within the city centre ecstasy scene. After falling for Lyndsay, a privileged girl from the other side of the tracks, his underworld ambitions are called into question. He accepts a contract to kill a dangerous rival before finding more than he bargained for, forcing him to confront his brutal childhood and the father he wants gone.George "The Bull" Donaldson was the hardest in the playground, then the streets of Muirhouse. Now he's a debt collector for his heroin kingpin father. After being taught a cruel lesson, he partners up with best pal Billy, but when family tensions erupt he realises blood is thicker than water and tough choices have to be made.After being Dragged into the middle of a feud between the uncle who mentored him and the father who just walked free from jail, Sean "Preemo" Donaldson is forced to choose a side. A letter from his estranged mother reopens old wounds and he contemplates the unthinkable.As each man arrives at his own perilous crossroads, what path will he take? Pure Angst is a gritty work of crime fiction that steams its way through the changing face of the UK drug scene, from the heroin ridden 80's to the explosion of 90's rave culture…