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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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Hard Man Author (Edinburgh Evening News Feature Article) Maestro Of The Mean Streets (Scotsman Feature) ______________________ "Guthrie’s work
stands up against the best the genre has to offer. His prose is clinically
efficient, his storytelling consummate, his dialogue sparkles and snaps on the
page, and his blend of black humour and breathless action is impossible to put
down." "razor-sharp characterisation and an evocative sense of
place... dark and splendid"
"an immensely skilful
writer" "a witty and inventive
stylist" "Chandler
meets Titus Andronicus on the blasted heath of Scotland's urban
underclass." "Guthrie's original voice grabs the reader and
doesn't let go" "character-driven
and exciting" "blacker
than a dog's guts" "a dark, perfectly
placed journey through psychoses, surreality and the twilight world of noir" "a thoroughly engaging tale, complete with some
twists that are so stealthily deployed they're pure genius" "at once
highly stylized and brutally realistic--the love-child of hardboiled fiction and
crime reporting" |
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Allan
Guthrie (photo by Mary Reagan) was born in Orkney, but has lived in Edinburgh for most of his adult
life. He is married to Donna. His first novel, Two-Way Split, was shortlisted
for the CWA Debut Dagger and went on to win the 2007 Theakston's Old Peculier
Crime Novel Of The Year. His second novel, Kiss Her Goodbye, was nominated for Edgar, Anthony and Gumshoe awards. His
third novel, Hard Man, is the winner of the inaugural Spinetingler award
for Best Novel -- New Voice. Allan is also the author of Kill Clock,
a novella for emergent adult readers. His fourth novel, Savage Night, is
out in March '08 in the UK and June in the US. When he's not writing, Allan is a literary agent with Jenny
Brown Associates. Representation The Feb/March Newsletter is now out. |
