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'Hard Man is an Edinburgh festival of lip-smacking gruesomeness and black comedy, where every light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.' VAL McDERMID 'Scorched earth writing. A hurtling, high-wire ballet of hard-boiled violence ... Riveting, nasty, dark, violent and utterly compelling. I couldn't put it down.' DENISE HAMILTON, Edgar-nominated author of Prisoner of Memory 'Blew me to hell and gone ... line on line of wondrous expression ... moved me in ways that hurt.' KEN BRUEN
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Has Pearce finally found his match? A time-served Edinburgh hard man, Pearce is still recovering from the recent loss of his mother in a stabbing incident in a post office robbery. He's invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant 16-year-old daughter from Wallace, her 26-year-old husband, a man with a penchant for killing family pets. Having found out that the baby's not his, Wallace has sworn vengeance. Pearce declines the job: he's no babysitter. But when Wallace kills Pearce's dog, he goes too far. Now it's personal. Time to find out who the real hard man is.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I first discovered Allan's work a bit over a year ago and quickly tracked down everything I could find. I read (or re-read) one every few months so as to not run out before the next book/novella is published. Hard Man is my most recent read of Allan's and it didn't disappoint. If you like tight, lean prose and excellent dialogue, Allan's work is right up your alley. And if you enjoy gritty violence mixed with an acerbic wit and black comedy, give Hard Man a read. I also highly recommend Slammer, which was on my 2010 top 10 list of best reads.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I'm now hearing Guthrie being hailed as the new premier writer of Scottish crime fiction and with all due respect to those on the wane, I couldn't agree more.
I can't think of a single other writer who can accurately depict a main character who is all-at-once the hardest man imaginable, yet crumbles to pieces at the thought of a crippled dog coming to any more harm.
Also, before reading this I couldn't imagine anyone accurately describing the hallucinogenic hell of tripping on mushrooms, tied up in a basement and soon to be carved up with a chainsaw. I can now.
Devotees of Scottish crime fiction. All hail the new king!
I can't think of a single other writer who can accurately depict a main character who is all-at-once the hardest man imaginable, yet crumbles to pieces at the thought of a crippled dog coming to any more harm.
Also, before reading this I couldn't imagine anyone accurately describing the hallucinogenic hell of tripping on mushrooms, tied up in a basement and soon to be carved up with a chainsaw. I can now.
Devotees of Scottish crime fiction. All hail the new king!
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Hard Man is a book that you really can't put down. Guthrie has created something wonderfully dangerous and terrifyingly addictive in his characters, as he skillfully manipulates their sadistic, somewhat depraved minds. As I read the book I could hardly breathe, sitting on the edge of my seat in anticipation, unable to put it down until the last page was read. Guthrie is probably the best crime writer of our time.
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