"Campbell Armstrong is thriller writing’s best-kept secret " - Sunday Times

"Near to unputdownlable " - GQ Magazine

"Erotic seduction mixes with bare knuckle Chandleresque prose in an intriguing psyche-drama that keeps you guessing right up to the last page " - Cork Examiner

Blackout is Campbell Armstrong at his high-octane best. Gregory Samsa survives a horrific car accident in a freak storm. But his passenger, a hooker called Almond doesn't. With his reputation, career and daughter on his mind, he conceals the girl's body in a remote place and fails to report her death.

This one moment of weakness draws Samsa into a dark downward spiral of deception, fear and violence. When Almond's body is discovered by chance, the shadowy figure of Lee Boyle, small-time pimp and speed-freak, emerges from the underworld, on the trail of her killer. And her killer is the very cop investigating her death...

Campbell Armstrong was born in Glasgow and lived for a number of years in the US where he taught creative writing. He now lives in a haunted seventeenth century mansion in County Offaly, Ireland. Despite being perhaps the only thriller writer to have a degree in philosophy, and having eight successful novels to his credit, Campbell Armstrong says that his favourite job was being a bus conductor on an open-air double-decker in Brighton. He has also been a copywriter, packer of bow-ties, record salesman and blackjack dealer in Las Vagas. His previous novels include Jig, Jigsaw, Heat and Silencer.