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Malcolm Mackay's acclaimed debut series, the Glasgow Trilogy, has been nominated for countless international prizes. He was born in Stornoway on Scotland's Isle of Lewis, where he still lives.
The Night the Rich Men Burned
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9780316271752
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Publication date: 05/03/2016
- Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
- Format: eBook
- Sales rank: 343,325
- File size: 869 KB
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"Malcolm Mackay has created his own world." --The Sunday Times [UK]
"A sharp-edged morality play delivered with the relentless intensity of machine gunfire."--Library Journal
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 debts of his own.
Meanwhile, the three most powerful rivals in the business--Marty Jones, ruthless pimp; Potty Cruickshank, member of the old guard; and Billy Patterson, brutal newcomer--vie for prominence. And now Peterkinney, young and darkly ambitious, is beginning to make himself known.
Before long, violence will spill out onto the streets, as those at the top make deadly attempts to out-maneuver one another for a bigger share of the spoils. Peterkinney and Glass will find themselves at the very center of this war; as the pressure builds, each will find their actions--and inactions--coming back to haunt them. But it is those they love who will suffer most . . .
The Night the Rich Men Burned is a novel for our times, and Mackay's most ambitious work to date, proving that in Glasgow's criminal underworld, there's nothing so terrifying as money.
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Publishers Weekly
03/28/2016Set in Glasgow, Mackay’s gritty, complex crime thriller centers on childhood friends Oliver Peterkinney and Alex Glass. Both 19 and jobless, Oliver and Alex agree to rough up a man for sleazy moneylender Marty Jones, who’s known for his wild parties. As Alex’s attention is diverted by a prostitute named Ella, Oliver rises in the ranks, eventually branching out on his own in the less than legal world of debt collecting. Trouble brews elsewhere as competing members of Glasgow’s older breed of criminals, men like Ronald “Potty” Cruickshank and Alex MacArthur, struggle to hold on to their places in a changing world when ruthless new blood like Billy Patterson and even kids like Oliver start staking claims. But in the end, this poisonous life “kills the good people first, then the bad,” and Mackay (The Sudden Arrival of Violence) skillfully blurs the line between the two until the characters are all just people, fighting to survive another day. Agent: Grainne Fox, Fletcher & Company. (May)
From the Publisher
"Don't pick up a Mackay book unless you've got spare time. They're habit-forming."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times"A bracing taste of Tartan Noir . . . A powerful morality tale . . . [Mackay] delves deeply into the psyches of his characters."—Margie Romero, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Mackay's devilishly intricate storylines ultimately converge with lethal force."—Vick Mickunas, Dayton Daily News
"A sharp-edged morality play delivered with the relentless intensity of machine gunfire"—Library Journal
PRAISE FOR THE GLASGOW TRILOGY:"
It's been a long time since so many pages went by so fast.... Mackay is a natural storyteller.... Surprisingly rewarding ... a thriller trilogy that thrills."—Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post
"Malcolm Mackay has created his own world."—The Sunday Times [UK]
Library Journal
12/01/2015Two Glasgow down-and-outs try to improve their prospects by entering the dark-and-dirty debt collection trade, with one succeeding and the other succumbing to the trade's indulgent lifestyle. A study of crime and social milieu from the author of the "Glasgow Trilogy"; with a 40,000-copy first printing.