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The Night the Rich Men Burned
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
There's nothing so terrifying as money....
Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up on Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of the city's darkest and most dangerous trades. But while one rises quickly up the ranks, the other will fall prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle and ever-spiralling debts.
Meanwhile, the three most powerful rivals in the business - Marty Jones, ruthless pimp; Potty Cruickshank, member of the old guard; and Billy Patterson, brutal newcomer - vie for prominence. And now Peterkinney, young and darkly ambitious, is beginning to make himself known....
Before long, violence will spill out onto the streets as those at the top make deadly attempts to outmanoeuvre one another for a bigger share of the spoils. Peterkinney and Glass will find themselves at the very centre of this war, and as the pressure builds both will find their actions - and inactions - coming back to haunt them. But it is those they love who will suffer most....
The incredible standalone novel from the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy.
Longlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller 2015.
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- Alastair
- 02-04-17
Just very good
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This was a great book, enjoyed the new characters. This is a book that I'll listen to again in the future
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- N. Reid
- 15-10-20
Wrong setting for an otherwise good story.
I'm enjoying this book. I like the other works by this author. He has a very gripping style of writing and it holds your interest.
It's just that.. well.. it's supposed to be set in Glasgow but it's really not.
It's not very Glaswegian in any way at all. This gets grating after a while.
It's not just that the narrator doesn't have a Glaswegian accent or even the odd bit of 'Glesga hard man' accent when required. Its also that the characters aren't very Glaswegian either.
The dialogue doesn't place them in either area of the city and neither does the narrative.
If you are not from Glasgow, haven't been around the type of character described (loosely) and not reading it or listening to it with Glasgow in the forefront of your mind then you probably won't notice.
But it just isn't grounded where it's meant to be set and that gets annoying every time two characters have an exchange.
e.g. having one say, "It ain't like that." when they would actually say, "It's no like that."
I'm probably nit picking, but it really does detract for me, from what is an otherwise well written story.
Maybe the author needs to hang about more dive bars in Glasgow or get in touch for dialogue editing advice 😂
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- Harrow
- 07-01-17
More of the same ; works for me
This novel is set the same world as the Glasgow trilogy, and some characters from those books appear.
It is a stand alone tale. The writing is deceptively simple, and it's very much a plot driven crime novel. Nothing profound or particularly thought provoking but an extremely engaging, easy read nonetheless.
The narration is fine, some of the stresses grated me a little but overall the narrator suits the book well enough.
One tip : skip through the very long list of characters at the opening of the novel. You won't need them - this isn't Tolstoy - and all characters are introduced fully in the text. This list might be fine in print but really adds nothing to an audiobook.
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- Brian
- 25-08-17
Good read
Using similar characters from other books it starts to build up a great history of a serial story.
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