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    The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter

    Written by Malcolm Mackay

    Narrated by Angus King

    3.5/5

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateApr 21, 2015
    ISBN9781478903406
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    The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter
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    Malcolm Mackay

    Malcolm Mackay was born and grew up in Stornoway where he still lives. The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, his much lauded debut was the first in the Glasgow Trilogy, set in the city's underworld. It was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award for Best Crime Debut of the Year and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award and was chosen as Best Read by ITV3's Specsavers Crime Thriller Club programme. How A Gunman Says Goodbye, the second book in the series, won the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award. The final book in the trilogy is The Sudden Arrival of Violence. His other crime novels include For Those Who Know the Ending, Every Night I Dream of Hell and In the Cage Where Your Saviours Hide.

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    • 4/5
      Outstanding debut in the Glasgow Trilogy by Malcolm Mackay. Dark, brooding Glasgow is the perfect setting for these gangland characters beautifully brought to life by Mackay. His staccato, rapid-fire writing style is ideally suited to the story he tells. There isn't the range of characters you might find in another of this genre, but the depth is very impressive throughout. I devoured the second half of the book in record time and I can't wait to get into the rest of the series...highly recommended. Thank you, Mr Mackay/Mulholland Books.
    • 3/5
      1st of a trilogy about Glasgow and a hired gun. The style of this book is everything. Gritty, brutal and very realistic hardboiled tale of a job and the fallout. It is fast-paced and relentless.
    • 5/5
      The title sets up the book perfectly. Not just in the obvious ways. Readers of crime fiction will immediately recognize this is about murder, cold-blooded murder. Premeditation. Probably not a crime of passion. "Necessary" implies calculated, business-like, an annoyance, a task. Why I make a big deal about this is because of the unique way the narrator describes the action, and similarly how many of the characters, mostly Glasgow lowlifes, mobsters, bent cops, talk and think. There is generally less dialog here, more description. We are being educated, explained to, perhaps a bit patronized. Just as the mob bosses explain matters to their underlings. But the messages are clear. "here's what I want, here's what you need to know, now do it." (and I don't need to hear your advice nor opinions). This is hardboiled, somewhat noir, but that's so overused - even among noir books, "Lewis Winter" is unique, not just in its language, but tone, descriptions. These are scary people. It's 322 pages, the first in a trilogy. This and other books in the trilogy have been very well received by critics. Lewis Winter is a low-level drug dealer; he has 5-6 runners peddling stuff for him. But Lewis is ambitious; he has a much younger girl friend and she has expensive tastes. Lewis needs more money to keep her happy. But in looking to build his little enterprise,he starts to step on the wrong toes. It becomes necessary to nip Lewis in the bud. Because their regular hitman is still recovering from hip surgery, the job is given to a free lancer.....No heroes in this book, but lots of very interesting characters. The author, Malcolm Mackay, introduces the cast in a two page summary upfront with a few sentences on each of the 20 or so people we'll be getting to know. Reminiscent of the character list at the front end of 1930's-40's movies. It's a fast read, tense, violent without being gory. I'll read the other two books soon. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Whoopee, this is the first in a trilogy, by a writer I'd never tried before and it is really excellent. The writing is sharp and taut, telling the story in short snappy sentences, introducing us to a cast of memorable characters who I look forward to finding out much more in books 2 and 3. Glasgow's crime scene has been the subject of a few recent novels, but I doubt that any are as good as this. Really looking forward to more from Malcolm Mackay.
    • 5/5
      This is the best crime thriller I've read in a long time and from a debut novelist too. I highly recommend that you read this. Love the style of writing- highly original. Will keep you gripped throughout. I cannot wait to read the next book in the trilogy (out in July 2013). Read it!!