Last Night of Freedom

by Dan Howarth

On a stag party in a remote part of the Lake District, four old university friends are dragged into a bizarre local ritual. Immersed in a fight for their lives – only one of them is guaranteed to make it home…


Fifteen years after graduation, four old university friends get together to celebrate Luke’s stag party. Tucked away in a remote village in the Lake District, they expect a weekend of real ale, log fires and gentle hikes – but a stag party of locals have other ideas.

Unwillingly drawn into one-upmanship and animosity, the four friends find themselves being hunted across unfamiliar ground in a game of deadly consequences. With only one of them guaranteed to survive, old wounds and resentments threaten to tear them apart as much as their pursuers.

Can the four friends unite to fight back, or will they fall, divided and broken?

5/5
"This novel takes place at a furious pace across a nightmare weekend, and I loved every desperate second of it."
David Moody - author of the hater series and shadowlocked
5/5
"An unflinching depiction of a fetid, primal face of human nature, where barbarism hides behind the rotting mask of tradition."
Kev Harrison - author of shadow of the hidden
5/5
"Deliverance meets Dead Man's Shoes... Does for stag parties what Jaws did for swimming."
W.A. Kelly - author of safe hands