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Meet Bruce McLintock: a down-on-his-luck Scottish journalist, now navigating the city's smoky clubs and rain-slick streets as an unlikely private investigator in 1970s Glasgow.
Bruce McLintock has nothing left: his wife gone, his job at the Courier finished, his days lost to whisky. When Archie MacPherson of the CID finds him half-conscious in a police cell, it's the start of a slow return to usefulness. Bruce takes on small jobs as a freelance journalist, then bigger ones as a private investigator.
What begins with a shipping magnate's confession of blackmail drags Bruce into a web of nightclubs, backroom deals and political double-talk. His shabby top-floor office is soon the front line between Glasgow's ordinary working lives and the men who profit from their fears.
With Mary Jo Milliken at his desk -- practical, steady, her own private burdens carried without complaint -- Bruce keeps stumbling forward. He's no hero, but he knows when something stinks. And in 1970s Glasgow, the stink is never far away.
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Glasgow in the 1970s is a city of contrasts -- rain-slick streets and smoky nightclubs, newsroom bustle and backroom deals. Behind the neon and whisky lurks a harder truth: corruption, blackmail, and violence that reach from the Clyde's waterfront to quiet tenement stairwells.
Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, William McIlvanney, James Ellroy and John Harvey
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????? 'An old fashioned mystery, no cell phones, just call boxes and desk phones. If you like mystery and enjoy looking at a past way of life read this one and enjoy.' Kindle Reader.
????? 'A very good mystery thriller. The plot moves along at a steady pace and is easy reading.' St.
????? 'Brilliant story.' Cynthia D.
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