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It's easy to kill a man. It's hard to kill a man well. A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is...

From the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy comes Every Night I Dream of Hell, a dark and thrilling Glaswegian crime drama. Nate Colgan would be the first to admit that his violent reputation makes him very good at his job -- and bad at everything else. After eighteen years spent...

The breathtaking, devastating second novel in the acclaimed Glasgow Trilogy, a Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year. How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But with his health failing him, how long before he's no longer of use...

Travel into the dark underworld of Glasgow, Scotland, in the suspenseful, award-winning organized-crime thriller series that the New York Times calls "habit-forming." Hit man Calum MacLean has finally had enough of killing. And he's planning an unprecedented escape just as his employers need him...

Oliver Peterkinney and Alex Glass, two friends from Glasgow's desperate fringes, become involved in one of the city's darkest and most dangerous trades: debt collection. While one rises quickly through the ranks, the other falls prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle, accumulating steep...

Winner of the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award. How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But is he still the best? A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. Someone is going to end up dead. Most...

Malcolm MacKay’s new political biography of Edward J. Flynn is a lively and extremely relevant study of politics in New York State that illuminates the critical interplay of statesmanship and politics in New York State, and throughout the New Deal in Washington. MacKay’s book underlines the importance of Al Smith's administration as an intellectual and political precursor of the New Deal, and highlights the critical importance of Ed Flynn as a politician and a statesman, as well as vital link between Democratic Party politics and the accomplishment of New Deal policy initiatives.

Longlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller 2015. There's nothing so terrifying as money . . . Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up on Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of...

It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two of Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And as Detective Michael...

Winner of the ITV3 Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read Award; shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award, shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year and the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award, longlisted the CWA Ian Fleming...

Winner of the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award. How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But is he still the best? A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. Someone is going to end up dead. Most...

Longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2016. From the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy, comes Every Night I Dream of Hell, a dark and thrilling Glaswegian crime drama. Nate Colgan: a violent man; 'smart muscle' for the Jamieson organization. Someone to be...

Nel primo capitolo dell'avvincente "Trilogia di Glasgow", un killer freelance, schivo e rispettato, è incaricato di uccidere un giovane pusher che sta cercando di estendere il suo impero. La giovane leva Calum MacLean è un sicario con poca esperienza ma con delle indiscutibili capacità. Nemmeno MacLeod, il più temuto assassino di Glasgow, può negarlo. MacLean dovrà far fuori Lewis Winter, un fastidioso spacciatore con delle pericolose ambizioni, che si accompagna alla seducente Zara Cope. Inutile dire che è più semplice a dirsi che a farsi...

Nel capitolo finale della "Trilogia di Glasgow", che ha per protagonista un giovane killer in carriera, le bande criminali della città danno vita a una vera e propria guerra, destinata a lasciarsi dietro una lunga scia di sangue e morte. È arrivato il momento della resa dei conti. Le alleanze nella malavita si sono rotte, una serie di morti eccellenti prepara il terreno allo scontro finale. Calum MacLean, ormai pluriomicida, decide di ritirarsi, anche se sa troppe cose e lo cercano in tanti. Ma un killer vive nell'ombra e sa come sparire.

Nel secondo capitolo della "Trilogia di Glasgow", in una Scozia che ribolle di criminalità, un giovane killer viene incaricato di assassinarne un altro, un autentico veterano del mestiere che ha la sola colpa di aver commesso un singolo sbaglio. MacLeod è ancora il sicario più temuto della città, ma non più il migliore, ormai. Nonostante la sua esperienza, infatti, compie un imperdonabile errore e si infila in un guaio. La criminalità organizzata non può passarci sopra, e un killer che fallisce è un uomo morto.

Nessuno racconta la malavita made in Scotland meglio di Malcolm Mackay. Con la trilogia di Glasgow, che il lettore italiano ha conosciuto solo per il primo capitolo, "La morte necessaria di Lewis Winter", prende fuoco l’intreccio di un formidabile romanzo criminale. In "La morte necessaria di Lewis Winter", conosciamo Calum MacLean, un killer freelance, schivo e rispettato, ‘il migliore della nuova leva’ per MacLeod, sicario veterano: un uomo che sa uccidere e scomparire, senza lasciare traccia.

Deve togliersi dalla testa i pensieri su Joanne e sul passato. Adesso deve solo pensare a se stesso, alla situazione in cui si è ficcato. Perché tra un'ora sarà tutto finito. Usman Kassar sta bene all'ombra degli affari di suo fratello maggiore. È comodo stare protetti, fuori dai radar di chi gestisce i traffici sporchi in una città dura come Glasgow. Massima tranquillità, grandi progetti, minimo rischio di essere scoperto. Prima o dopo però, il lavoro pericoloso ti mette in mostra, se sei bravo, se sei un bastardo, che tu lo voglia o no. Martin Sivok è un killer che viene da fuori, da un altro mondo, abituato ad altre regole.

The independent kingdom of Scotland flourished until the beginning of the last century. Its great trading port of Challaid, in the northwest of the country, sent ships around the world, and its merchants and bankers grew rich on their empire in Central America.But Scotland is not what it was, and the docks of Challaid are almost silent. The huge infrastructure projects collapsed, like the dangerous railway tunnels under the city. And above ground the networks of power and corruption are all that survive of Challaid's glorious past.

Longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2016. From the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy, comes Every Night I Dream of Hell, a dark and thrilling Glaswegian crime drama. Nate Colgan: a violent man; 'smart muscle' for the Jamieson organization. Someone to be...

It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two of Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And as Detective Michael...