The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, Malcolm Mackay
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, Malcolm Mackay
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The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter

Author: Malcolm Mackay

Narrator: Angus King

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/21/2015


Synopsis

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 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Corto on January 23, 2021

By far η πιο φρέσκια, ουσιαστική και ενδιαφέρουσα νουάρ φωνή.......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on September 07, 2015

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter: Malcolm Mackay's First Volume of the Glasgow Trilogy "It's ieasy to kill a man. It's hard to kill a man well. Malcolm Mackay Mackay is an extraordinary new voice in crime fiction. It's dark. It's gritty. And Mackay takes the reader by the throat and immerses th......more

Goodreads review by Effie on December 10, 2022

Εξαιρετικό πρώτο μέρος! Λιτό,απόλυτο,ξεκάθαρο. 5/5......more

Goodreads review by Λίνα on October 09, 2016

Όταν μου το δάνεισαν αυτό το βιβλίο πίστευα ότι δεν θα ήταν ενδιαφέρον διότι την υπόθεση την μαρτυρούσε ο τίτλος... Τελειώνοντας το ανακάλυψα ότι όντως δεν είναι τόσο ενδιαφέρων σαν πλοκή αλλά είναι ενδιαφέρων ο τρόπος γραφής του συγγραφέα... Αν και άνετα κάποιος θα του έδινε 5 αστέρια ... εγώ θα το......more


Quotes

"[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."—Janet Maslin, New York Times

"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. "—Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post

"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."—Adam Woog, Seattle Times

"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 The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter is a first class member of that."—Lee Child

"A quietly absorbing gangland tale, full of moral ambiguities."—The Times

"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."—Library Journal (starred)

"Tartan noir fans will be satisfied."—Publishers Weekly

"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."—Observer

"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."—Daily Mail