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Zusatztext Mackay's real achievement! and it is considerable! lies in the way he renders Glasgow gangland almost abstract: the language is spare! limpid; the dialogue is uninflected! almost devoid of idiom. It's a shock when! about 50 pages in! someone finally swears. Can this really be Glasgow? And yet this gives the books their power and a kind of existential force Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext You think you're the good guy. You think you're a good man doing bad things reluctantly. You think you're forced into these things by the actions of others, the reluctant anti-hero. You're not the good guy . . . Nate Colgan: a violent man; 'smart muscle' for the Jamieson organization. Someone to be afraid of. But with its most powerful individuals now dead or behind bars, things within the organization are shifting. And when Nate - long working on the fringes of the business - is reluctantly appointed its new 'security consultant', he has no idea how things are about to unravel. It begins with an execution, a message; and soon the various factions within the organization are in chaos. Out of the confusion comes one clear fact: a new group has arrived in Glasgow, and in their quest for power they are prepared to ignite a war . . . 'The plot is meticulous, the dialogue sharp, the emotions edgy. Mackay turns in another mesmeric performance' Marcel Berlins, The Times 'If you like your crime fiction boiled to within an inch of its life, this morally complex, twisty-turny tale won't disappoint' Irish Examiner A dark and thrilling Glasgow crime drama from the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy Zusammenfassung An edgy Glasgow crime drama from the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy....
