No Smoke - Softcover
Hugh Collins' fiction debut is at turns a vicious, hilarious, and highly original crime novel set in 1976 in his native Glasgow. This was a time when the Sensational Alex Harvey Band were gods; flares, mullets and flick-knives were the currency of cool; and the old criminal codes of honour had yet to be destroyed by the new breed of gangster that emerged in the 1980s.
Barney Boone and his gang are running around town, thieving, conning and getting involved in all sorts of minor criminal activity. Then a scam goes wrong and dead bodies start to pile up. Including a young Asian man murdered in a Glasgow police cell. The police are quick to try and pin it on one of the local hard men. But the real suspects could be much closer to home.
Barney Boone and his gang are running around town, thieving, conning and getting involved in all sorts of minor criminal activity. Then a scam goes wrong and dead bodies start to pile up. Including a young Asian man murdered in a Glasgow police cell. The police are quick to try and pin it on one of the local hard men. But the real suspects could be much closer to home.
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About the Author:
Hugh Collins was born and brought up in Glasgow. In 1977 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder that took place in a Glasgow bar. Released in 1992, he has since written two volumes of autobiography - Autobiography of a Murderer (1998) and Walking Away (2000), as well as two novels, No Smoke (2001) and The Licensee (2002). He is married and lives in Edinburgh.
From Publishers Weekly:
Reformed Glaswegian gangster Hugh Collins (he was released from prison in 1992 after serving 16 years for murder) has a two-part autobiography under his belt; his latest effort takes the form of a fast-paced, corpse-strewn crime novel full of '70s-style double-crossing rogues bantering and conning each other in thick vernacular. "In an oot. Canny go wrang," you say? Old-timer Barney Boone finds out that plenty can go wrong as small-time thievery escalates into murder and mayhem in No Smoke, the first installment of a trilogy set in the underbelly of Scotland's grittiest city.
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- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1841951161
- ISBN 13 9781841951164
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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