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Andy
Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks he’s discovered a
way to make his family’s enemies pay. He isn’t prepared for the
fall-out, though. Before long, his teenage son is in mortal danger, and
his daughter and her fiancé are knee-deep in corpses.
The kill clock is ticking... Pearce's
ex-girlfriend is back. She needs twenty grand before midnight. Or she's
dead. She doesn't have the money. Nor does Pearce. And time's running out.
Fast.
"If this novel had emerged from a
high school creative writing class its young author would now be under
heavily guarded psychiatric care." When people in Edinburgh want to borrow money,
they go to Cooper. When they don’t pay it back, they get a visit from Joe
Hope. But now Joe’s got problems of his own. His teenage daughter is found
dead, an apparent suicide. Then the police arrest him for murder. But for once
in his life, Joe’s innocent—and with help from Scotland’s hardest men (and
one of Scotland’s hardest women), he sets out to find the person who framed
him and deliver his own brutal brand of justice.
Robin Greaves is an armed robber whose
professionalism is put to the test when he discovers his wife has been sleeping
with a fellow gang-member. Robin plans the ultimate revenge, but things go from
bad to worse when the gang bungles a post office robbery, leaving carnage in
their wake. Suddenly they are stalked by the police, sleazy private eyes, and a
cold-blooded killer who may be the only one not looking for a cut of the money.
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____________________________________________ "Set in Edinburgh, this gutsy crime novel from Edgar-finalist Guthrie (Hard
Man) tweaks the tired conventions of the genre in
refreshing ways... In the ensuing mayhem the two families wreak enough
havoc on each other to satisfy Shakespeare. Fans of Ken Bruen, Derek
Raymond and Jim Thompson will love this stylish, blood-drenched tartan
noir." “Savage
Night is Shallow
Grave, on steroids and bad acid, and conducted by the devil
himself…Guthrie's writing explodes in virtuoso riffs as crazed and
original as the best of Raymond Chandler.” "I expected violence and I got it.
But I now know what ‘casual violence’ is. Almost like reading a
grocery list, violence just happens. There’s no big lead-up, there’s
little warning, it just is. I guess that’s what it’s like in real
life. I like it. I’ll try to incorporate it into my fiction." Scott
D Parker on Kiss Her Goodbye German edition of Kiss Her Goodbye sneaks in at #10 on the "What really makes Guthrie stand
out, in my opinion, is the humour. He is one of the funniest writers
around" Leeds Metropolitan University "Breakneck pace, addictively slangy prose and gallows humor.
Guthrie is certainly an original."
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"The story is juicy, wild, even insane. Trust me, you’ll get flash
burns from turning the pages so fast."
"an unstoppable cycle of revenge so violent – and yet so natural
– that it amounts to a kind of fucked-up genius" "a stimulating read that demands your full attention, and it’s
easy to give it because the book is packed with action, and plenty of
twists and turns to keep you guessing to the end" "a masterful exercise in pulp
storytelling" Hard Man takes the Lie Detector test at At Central Booking, and the Wiretap debuts with Allan Guthrie's reading of a 200-word short story that consists almost entirely of swearing. "a gripping tale of betrayal and
deception" Hard Man wins the Spinetingler Brian Lindenmuth puts Allan Guthrie "Two-Way Split is hardboiled Scottish crime noir at its
best" "the simplicity of the text is pure fire." "Pretty much blew me away." "Orkney-born Guthrie is the exact opposite of McCall Smith's sunny and optimistic view of human behaviour, placing himself firmly in the hard-boiled US tradition, but transposed to a gritty, violent Edinburgh, with a mix of Jim Thompson's small-time US sociopaths in Irvine Welsh settings." The Inverness Courier "a worthwhile book" Hard Man has been nominated for a Spinetingler Award! now available from Busted
Flush Press "Hard-hitting story with plenty of excitement" New event scheduled:
"quite a bit of fun" "It’ll leave you devastated,
hollowed out, aching to cry and craving more". Two-Way Split reviewed
at Two-Way Split wins the 2007 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year!
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