Malcolm Mackay
The Night the Rich Men Burned
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He wasn't thinking about the job centre. Wasn't thinking about any sort of work that was going to be advertised. He was thinking of the world Drummond now inhabited. He was thinking of the money. He was thinking of the life . . . Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up in Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of the city's darkest and most dangerous trades. Meanwhile, the three most powerful rivals in the business - Marty Jones, pimp and sometime lender; Potty Cruickshank, member of the old guard; and Billy Patterson, brutal newcomer - vie…
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He wasn't thinking about the job centre. Wasn't thinking about any sort of work that was going to be advertised. He was thinking of the world Drummond now inhabited. He was thinking of the money. He was thinking of the life . . . Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up in Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of the city's darkest and most dangerous trades. Meanwhile, the three most powerful rivals in the business - Marty Jones, pimp and sometime lender; Potty Cruickshank, member of the old guard; and Billy Patterson, brutal newcomer - vie for prominence. Before long, violence will spill out onto the streets, and Peterkinney and Glass will find themselves at the very centre of a war. As the pressure builds, each will find their actions - and inactions - coming back to haunt them. But it is those they love who will suffer most . . . Praise for Malcolm Mackay'Gripping and vivid, with a labyrinthine plot involving double- and triple-crossing . . . Mackay succeeds magnificently' Guardian'Mackay ratchets up the tension like a master' Daily Telegraph
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4472-6438-5
- EAN: 9781447264385
- Produktnummer: 17774720
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B13.1 cm x D3.0 cm 351 g
- Gewicht: 351
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den 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.
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