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The Night the Rich Men Burned

โœ Scribed by Malcolm Mackay


Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
190 KB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis


"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

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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...


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