Bloody January (A Harry McCoy Thriller)

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That kind of compromised, yet still idealistic, cop has now become familiar enough to us: it’s Jimmy McNulty in the TV series The Wire, or – closer to home, Alex Morrow, with her gangster half-brother, in Denise Mina’s fiction. Under an intense media focus, McCoy and his rookie partner, Wattie, haunt the streets of Glasgow and its criminal underbelly to try and get a handle on what happened and why.

When an 18-year-old boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commits suicide, McCoy knows it can't be a random act of violence. Alan Parks, author of Bloody January, the debut novel featuring maverick detective Harry McCoy has done something remarkable with his book: As John Niven, himself a bestselling novelist, says “[he has created a story which is]…taut, violent and as close as you’ll get to 1970s Glasgow without a Tardis.Throughout the storyline we get to find out a lot more about McCoy and he is a man with a past and indeed a man who is currently dipping his sticky fingers into a number of areas and situations that would be questionable for a police officer nowadays but remember we are set in a time where many blind eyes were turned to what was going on. He has friends in the underworld, people with power and control, these are real old school hard men, gangsters, they're sadistic, and nobody, not even McCoy, will stop them from achieving their aims. She leaves behind no memories worth keeping: her husband is dead, her boss has made no bones about disliking her, and she’s looking forward to new responsibilities and the higher salary underwritten by North Dakota’s sudden oil boom.

The trials and tribulations of Detective Harry McCoy and the various characters in the Glasgow underworld that he has to deal with.The dialogue is your standard gritty noir fiction style and the scenes are moving fast across readers eyes. The graft and corruption in which Harry dabbles is in fact commonplace and it’s quite shocking to those who didn’t live through those years. According to several sources, between 133 [18] and 137 [19] civilians died with the unofficial number reaching 300. The Seventies are here in all their seediness: old copies of Parade on the pavements, TVs on tick from DER, smokers lighting up one Kensitas after another.

Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. Pretende ser policía, pero se mueve entre los dos mundos sin decidirse por ninguno y se pasa todo el día bebiendo en sucios antros. With no idea whom to trust, he is forced to use all means at his disposal to find out the truth, tapping his sources on both sides of the law. On 13 January, anti-Armenian pogrom began in Baku which resulted in 48 deaths, while thousands fled or were evacuated by the Soviet military.As Harry endures beating after beating, his heart and personal morality will not allow him to give up on trying to get some form of justice for the rising tide of the dead. In a helter-skelter tale – winding from moneyed elite to hipster music groupies to the brutal gangs of the urban wasteland – Bloody January brings to life the dark underbelly of 1970s Glasgow and introduces a dark and electrifying new voice in Scottish noir. This was written so vividly it was impossible not to see, hear and smell the sights coming from the pages.

The sweeping emergency decree, signed by President Mikhail Gorbachef after an emergency meeting of the Presidium of the Soviet Parliament, followed a weekend of anti-Armenian riots in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, and open armed combat elsewhere. Detective Harry McCoy is convinced it wasn't a random act of violence, and he guessed correctly, so, with his new partner Wattie, he begins an investigation that will take him from the brothels in the less salubrious areas of this city to a secret society run by one of the wealthiest families in Glasgow. The story starts off with McCoy being tipped off by a convict about a murder set to happen the next day. Gripping, brutal and with a clear sense of place, ‘Bloody January’ is a morally dubious Glasgow based crime thriller. At the beginning, it seems something and then it starts to deflate as you start to see where the story is going.

The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. The state of emergency was, however, disclosed to the Azerbaijani public only several hours [6] after the beginning of the offensive, when many citizens already lay dead or wounded in the streets, hospitals and morgues of Baku.