Don't Hold Your Breath — William Newton

From the author of more than ninety works of fiction. From the swamplands where they had been raised came Will Gitelow and Ben Calder. They stole and drank, and ran away to the big citywhere they discovered a whole new life of violence. The Gitelow boy was killed, and Calder found himself sucked into a world of blackmail. Soon he is on the run again, and feels his only chance of survival is to seek the sanctuary he believes will be his... ifhe can make it back to the swamplands.