Every Night I Dream of Hell
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4.3 • 6 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
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 would be the first to admit that his violent reputation makes him very good at his job -- and bad at everything else. After eighteen years spent working on the sidelines of Glasgow's criminal underworld, there's no question he'll accept the central position that Peter Jamieson's organization offers him, despite his better judgment.
The organization isn't as strong as it once was: its most powerful members are either dead or behind bars, including Jamieson himself, and the time is ripe for change. Chang begins with an execution -- a message for Jamieson's supporters -- which promptly sets the various factions within the organization against one another.
Colgan's position as "security consultant" means his duty is clear: identify the killer and find out who's willing to seize power, even if it means igniting a war. Meanwhile, on the other side of the law, DI Michael Fisher conduscts his own investigation into the murder.
Both men can't help but wonder: Why do these events coincide with the return of Zara Cope, the mother of Colgan's child, a disreputable woman with an uncanny ability to attract trouble and troublemakers? A dark and thrilling crime drama, Every Night I Dream of Hell takes us deep into a world of violence, fear and double-crosses.
"Don't pick up a Mackay book unless you've got spare time. They're habit-forming." -- New York Times
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.)
