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The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter

Author(s): Malcolm Mackay

Location(s): Glasgow

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Era(s): Modern

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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 organisation wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A brief. A target: Lewis Winter. 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. An arresting, gripping novel of dark relationships and even darker moralities, The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter introduces a remarkable new voice in crime fiction. The second book in the Glasgow Trilogy How A Gunman Says Goodbye will follow soon . . .

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What emerges is a bleak, depressing, frighteningly plausible picture of Glasgow’s criminal underworld. The tension – and there’s a lot of it; this is a book that it would be hard not to finish...

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