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A 29-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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 gunmen say goodbye to the world with a bang. Frank’s still here. He’s lasted longer than he should have...

The independent kingdom of Scotland flourished until the beginning of the last century. Its great trading port of Challaid, in the north west 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...