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Banks is one of the freshest voices in hard-boiled crime fiction today. --Library Journal
This is fiery stuff --Guardian
This is fiery stuff --Guardian
This is fiery stuff --Guardian
This is fiery stuff --Guardian
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Shuggie Boyle is a changed man. Which is why, after serving four years for armed robbery, he's skipped his license and jacked a pensioner's car. He is heading back to his ex-girlfriend's house to retrieve the stash from the robbery. He's following his long terms goal and the secret of keeping his temper. Happiness for Shuggie is only a few grand and a few thousand miles away - that journey from California (in Falkirk) to California (in America)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the first book by Ray Banks that I've read, but I'll definitely be buying some more now. I think we've the Kindle to thank for the fact that a lot more shorter works and novellas by writers of all kinds are now appearing, but especially crime. this is actually a paperback but I'm rediscovering the joys of shorter works lately. Banks tells the story of hard man Shuggie Boyle, a touch but touching character whose ambition it is to get out of California in Falkirk, Scotland, and make it to the California of everyone's dreams.
To get there he needs to get his share of the stash from the bank robbery that put him inside, but the money's missing and he needs to track it down. He also has to learn how to control his temper, which he knows has been his downfall too many times in the past. The writer really gets you into Shuggie Boyle's head (which is not always a comfortable place to be), and I think Ray Banks is up there with other 'tartan noir' crime writers like Allan Guthrie.
To get there he needs to get his share of the stash from the bank robbery that put him inside, but the money's missing and he needs to track it down. He also has to learn how to control his temper, which he knows has been his downfall too many times in the past. The writer really gets you into Shuggie Boyle's head (which is not always a comfortable place to be), and I think Ray Banks is up there with other 'tartan noir' crime writers like Allan Guthrie.
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A great Scottish noir crime story
23 April 2011
Format:Paperback
This is the first book by Ray Banks that I've read, but I'll definitely be buying some more now. I think we've the Kindle to thank for the fact that a lot more shorter works and novellas by writers of all kinds are now appearing, but especially crime. this is actually a paperback but I'm rediscovering the joys of shorter works lately. Banks tells the story of hard man Shuggie Boyle, a touch but touching character whose ambition it is to get out of California in Falkirk, Scotland, and make it to the California of everyone's dreams.
To get there he needs to get his share of the stash from the bank robbery that put him inside, but the money's missing and he needs to track it down. He also has to learn how to control his temper, which he knows has been his downfall too many times in the past. The writer really gets you into Shuggie Boyle's head (which is not always a comfortable place to be), and I think Ray Banks is up there with other 'tartan noir' crime writers like Allan Guthrie.
To get there he needs to get his share of the stash from the bank robbery that put him inside, but the money's missing and he needs to track it down. He also has to learn how to control his temper, which he knows has been his downfall too many times in the past. The writer really gets you into Shuggie Boyle's head (which is not always a comfortable place to be), and I think Ray Banks is up there with other 'tartan noir' crime writers like Allan Guthrie.
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