Every Night I Dream of Hell
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Publisher Description
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 afraid of.
But now, with its most powerful individuals either dead or behind bars, things within the Jamieson organization are beginning to shift. When Nate, long working on the fringes of the business, is reluctantly appointed its new 'security consultant', he can little imagine how things are about to unravel . . .
It begins with an execution, a message; and soon the various factions within the organization are sent into chaos. But out of the confusion comes one clear fact: a new group has arrived in Glasgow, and in their quest for power they are prepared to ignite a war. But who is behind the group? And why has the calculating Zara Cope – the mother of Nate's child – suddenly appeared back in town?
Meanwhile DI Fisher, buoyed by his recent successes in finally jailing some of the city's most notorious criminals, is prowling on the edges of these latest battles, looking for his chance to strike before all hell breaks loose . . .
In Every Night I Dream of Hell Malcolm Mackay takes us deep into a world of violence, fear and double-crossing that grips until the final page has been turned.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nate Colgan, a side player in Edgar-finalist Mackay's Glasgow trilogy (The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, etc.), narrates this morally complex standalone. Nate is the muscle with brains for Peter Jamieson's crime organization in Glasgow, a position that has become all the more necessary now that Jamieson and his right-hand man, John Young, are serving time. Dubbed a security consultant, Nate sees two threats to the Jamieson empire: first, infighting and the inevitable internal power grabs; second, the infiltration of a deadly gang from England, hell-bent on taking over. Led by Adrian Barrett, the new lads want Jamieson's slice of the Glaswegian drug business, which isn't insubstantial, and they'll kill to get it. Nate isn't against getting his hands dirty, but he stops short when he realizes that Zara Cope, his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his nine-year-old daughter, is entangled with Barrett's gang. Filled with bloody intrigue, Scottish slang, and enough twists and turns to keep even the most astute reader guessing, this is hard-boiled fiction at its finest.)
