For Those Who Know the Ending
Published on 14. July 2016
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-4472-9159-6 (ISBN)
Description
A multi-layered and unnerving portrait of gangland Glasgow, For Those Who Know the Ending is the gripping novel from the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy, Malcolm Mackay.
He has to clear thoughts of Joanne and thoughts of the past out of his mind. He has to think about himself, his situation. Think about the next hour . . . In that hour, everything will be decided.
It's been almost two hours. Two hours, and Martin Sivok is still tied up, alone in a darkened warehouse; plastic strips digging into the soft flesh of his wrists.
He wants them to come back. Get this over with. But he also knows that as soon as they return, this could very well be his ending.
Because Martin has messed up. Stolen dirty money he should never have touched. Dirty money that the Jamieson organization, the most dangerous criminal outfit in Glasgow, wants back.
Someone has to die for this. And over the next few hours, he has to work out how that somebody can be anyone but him . . .
He has to clear thoughts of Joanne and thoughts of the past out of his mind. He has to think about himself, his situation. Think about the next hour . . . In that hour, everything will be decided.
It's been almost two hours. Two hours, and Martin Sivok is still tied up, alone in a darkened warehouse; plastic strips digging into the soft flesh of his wrists.
He wants them to come back. Get this over with. But he also knows that as soon as they return, this could very well be his ending.
Because Martin has messed up. Stolen dirty money he should never have touched. Dirty money that the Jamieson organization, the most dangerous criminal outfit in Glasgow, wants back.
Someone has to die for this. And over the next few hours, he has to work out how that somebody can be anyone but him . . .
Reviews / Votes
This is a writer who has had critics attempting to come up with new adjectives to praise him * Independent * Mackay is a natural storyteller, able to jump from one hurtling train of action to another * Washington Post * Gripping and vivid . . . Mackay succeeds magnificently * Guardian * The plot is meticulous, the dialogue sharp, the emotions edgy. Mackay turns in another mesmeric performance * The Times * Another Scottish crime-writing star is born * Mark Billingham *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
486 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4472-9159-6 (9781447291596)
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Person
Malcolm Mackay was born and grew up in Stornoway where he still lives. His much-lauded Glasgow-set novels have won the Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read Award and the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award, and have been shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year, the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award. For Those Who Know the Ending is Malcolm Mackay's sixth novel.