For Those Who Know the Ending - Couverture souple

Mackay, Malcolm

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1447291611 ISBN 13 : 9781447291619

Editeur : Pan Books, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A Czech gunman and a would-be gangster find themselves on the wrong side of Glasgow's biggest crime organization, in Malcolm Mackay's newest gritty noir.

"Don't pick up a Mackay book unless you've got spare time. They're habit-forming." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Martin Sivok doesn't immediately remember how he came to be tied to a folding chair in a deserted warehouse. As he waits to face his fate, he fights the mother of all headaches, gradually reconstructs the events that brought him to this point, and eventually identifies just where it all went wrong.

The wrong turn started with Usman Kassar, the nervous, goofy younger son of a Pakistani family, who's running every scheme he can think of to prove himself to the Jamieson organization. Usman offers Martin his first opportunity for a serious payday, so even though the old pro isn't too eager to work with the nervous kid, the significant take and the straightforward job make it tough to refuse. They manage to get away with the money, but not without first cracking some heads--including the head of Jamieson's head of security Nate Colgan.
Which leads us back to that empty warehouse, and Martin on the chair....

Malcolm Mackay captures the character of Glasgow and its inhabitants in sharp, precise prose, an "elegant stylist" unmatched by another others in contemporary noir fiction (Chicago Tribune).

Revue de presse :

PRAISE FOR EVERY NIGHT I DREAM OF HELL

"The [Glasgow] trilogy was a bravura performance, and one had every reason to expect that Mackay would do more with such rich material. That expectation has now been met, and rousingly so."―Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post

"Contemporary noir doesn't boast a more elegant stylist than Mackay. Even in evoking a world of scuzziness, he makes the lure of redemption sing."―Chicago Tribune

"Mackay continues to ascend the ranks of hard-boiled British crime fiction authors. His latest novel [is] streaked with black humor and a fast-paced plot that never sacrifices the truly fleshed-out characters."―Library Journal (starred review)

"Morally complex . . . Filled with bloody intrigue, Scottish slang, and enough twists and turns to keep even the most astute reader guessing, this is hard-boiled fiction at its finest."―Publishers Weekly

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pan Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1447291611
• ISBN 13: 9781447291619
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352