The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter - (Glasgow Trilogy) by Malcolm MacKay (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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 another job, but what if this organization wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first step in an all-out war between crime syndicates the likes of which hasn't been seen for decades. It's easy to kill a man. It's hard to kill a man well. People who do it well know this. People who do it badly find out the hard way. The hard way has consequences"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>It's easy to kill a man. It's hard to kill a man well.</em></p><p>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 another job, but what if this organization wants more?</p><p>A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first step in an all-out war between crime syndicates the likes of which hasn't been seen for decades. It's easy to kill a man. It's hard to kill a man well. People who do it well know this. People who do it badly find out the hard way. The hard way has consequences.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A quietly absorbing gangland tale, full of moral ambiguities."--<b><i>The Times</b></i><br><br>"A remarkably original debut . . . this is a book that it would be hard not to finish in one sitting . . . a wholly believable and unnerving portrait of organised crime."--<b><i>Observer</b></i><br><br>"A welcome, hard-hitting addition to the tartan noir genre . . . It's easy to write a crime novel; it's hard to write a crime novel well. And this unrelenting look at the grimy underbelly of Glasgow's criminal underworld does it very well."--<b><i>Library Journal (starred)</b></i><br><br>"Exhilarating, canny and strikingly original ... Mackay is less interested in violence than in the insides of his vivid characters' heads, including those of a police detective and the sad-sack victim. Darting seamlessly in and out of those heads, Mackay reveals their thoughts (sometimes dumb, sometimes shrewd) as they jockey for position in a complex power struggle. Remarkable."--<b>Adam Woog</b>, <b><i>Seattle Times</b></i><br><br>"It's been a long time since so many pages went by so fast .... Mackay is a natural storyteller [with] a voice to which we're happy to surrender. Surprisingly rewarding .... a thriller trilogy that thrills. "--<b>Dennis Drabelle</b>, <b><i>Washington Post</b></i><br><br>"Remarkable. Mackay's achievement is all the more stunning because drawing on his sublime imagination and innate empathy he has created a cast of characters so vivid - especially MacLean, who knows how hard it is to kill a man - that they live on in the memory long after the final page."--<b><i>Daily Mail</b></i><br><br>"Tartan noir fans will be satisfied."--<b><i>Publishers Weekly</b></i><br><br>"[Mackay's] Glasgow Trilogy is classic . . . The subject is organized crime, but it's the author's blunt eloquence that matters. Don't pick up a Mackay book unless you've got spare time. They're habit-forming."--<b>Janet Maslin</b>, <b><i>New York Times</b></i><br><br>"Glasgow's a tough city and this is a tough book . . . very authentic, very gritty, you can really feel the streets. They call this genre Tartan Noir and absolutely <i>The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter</i> is a first class member of that."--<b><i>Lee Child</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Malcolm Mackay</b>'s Glasgow Trilogy has been nominated for several international prizes. <i>The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter</i> was shortlisted for the Edgar Awards' Best Paperback Original, the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. <i>How a Gunman Says Goodbye</i> won the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award. Mackay was born in Stornoway on Scotland's Isle of Lewis, where he still lives.
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