The Sudden Arrival of Violence - The Glasgow Trilogy

It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two of Glasgow''s biggest criminal organizations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And as Detective Michael Fisher knows, the biggest - and bloodiest - manoeuvres are yet to come . . . The stunning conclusion to Malcolm Mackay''s lauded Glasgow Trilogy, The Sudden Arrival of Violence will return readers to the city''s underworld: a place of dark motives, dangerous allegiances and inescapable violence . . .

About the author

Malcolm Mackay was born and grew up in Stornoway where he still lives. The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, his much lauded debut was the first in the Glasgow Trilogy, set in the city's underworld. It was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award for Best Crime Debut of the Year and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award and was chosen as Best Read by ITV3's Specsavers Crime Thriller Club programme. How A Gunman Says Goodbye, the second book in the series, won the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award. The final book in the trilogy is The Sudden Arrival of Violence. His other crime novels include For Those Who Know the Ending, Every Night I Dream of Hell and In the Cage Where Your Saviours Hide.

Report

Superb . . . Mackay is a true original, managing to conjure up a gripping new way of portraying city-noir. This, from a writer who has lived his whole life in far-off Stornoway, with only few short visits to the Glasgow he has so vividly created. He's no longer a rising star. He's risen Marcel Berlins The Times

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm Mackay, MACKAY MALCOLM
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.08.2015
• EAN: 9781447290766
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-9076-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Pan Books; The Glasgow Trilogy; The Glasgow Trilogy; Die Glasgow-Noir-Serie / Glasgow Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Glasgow, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Noir, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Central Scotland, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit