His debut novel Bloody January was shortlisted for the prestigious international crime prize the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.

As claimed by Mikhail Gorbachev, gunmen of the Azerbaijani National Front opened fire on the soldiers; [13] however, findings of the Moscow-based non-governmental organization Shield found no evidence of "armed combatants of Azerbaijani Popular Front", which was used as a motive to crush the civilian population on 20 January. Drugs, sex, incest; every nefarious predilection is catered to, at the expense of the lower echelon of society, an underclass that includes McCoy’s best friend from reformatory school – drug-Tsar Stevie Cooper – and his on-off girlfriend, a prostitute, Janey. 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. A. in Moral Philosophy from the University of Glasgow, and still lives and works in the city he so vividly depicts in his Harry McCoy thrillers.The old one, though, is still in focus: indeed, short of a Tardis, says John Niven, this book is the best way of getting back to Seventies Glasgow. The city hasn‘ t turned into the town it is today but resembles a rather rund own place where police and gangland work hand in hand - have to work hand in hand if they want to solve any case at all.

With his new partner in tow, McCoy uses his underworld network to lead the investigation but soon runs up against a secret society led by Glasgow's wealthiest family, the Dunlops.The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. As soon as the Dunlops come out, you can see what it's all about and you already sense a very familiar plot and a predictable ending.

Plantea una ciudad sin alma, sucia, sin encanto, llena de mala gente, nieve sucia, frío húmedo y pies congelados.We always used to catch the bus back to Elderslie from just by the St Enoch’s Hotel, and we’d see all those poor people there, huddling by the hot air vents and drinking god knows what. The debut novel from Alan Parks introduces readers to Harry McCoy, a police detective in 1973 Glasgow, Scotland. On 12 January, the Popular Front organized a national defence committee with branches in factories and offices in Baku.

This is a city down on its uppers, with only occasional glimmers of the city that Glasgow was to become, and Parks’ colourful and inventive use of the Glaswegian vernacular brings a heightened level of enjoyment to the book too. He pretends to be a cop, but he moves between the two worlds without deciding on either and spends all day drinking in filthy dens. A young man shoots a young woman dead in a busy Glasgow street, he makes no attempt to conceal what he's done, on the contrary, with a smile on his face he turns the gun on himself and commits suicide. Bloody January is a startlingly excellent addition to the Scottish crime scene, even more so as a debut.McCoy is not best pleased being paired with someone who is his polar opposite but yet a friendship and understanding develops between the two men. Harry has put himself out to speak for the homeless 'the jakies' and earned their eternal gratitude. The independent Shield organization which consists of a group of lawyers and officers in reserve, observed human rights violations in the army and its military operations, [15] and concluded that the army waged a war on its civilians and demanded to start a criminal investigation against the Minister of Defence, Dmitry Yazov, who had personally led the operation.