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'Tony Black is my favourite British crime writer and Gus Dury the genre's most interesting protagonist. Like his previous books, Loss has the power, style and street swagger that makes most of his contemporaries a little bland by comparison' --Irvine Welsh
'If you're a fan of the Ian Rankins, Denise Minas and Irvine Welshes of this world, this is most certainly one for you' --Scotsman
'The enigmatic Dury continues to be the punk rocker of the Scottish crime scene - anarchic, rebellious and never afraid to shove his Doc Martens where they're not wanted' --Daily Record
'Tony Black has written two of the finest crime novels to come out of the UK in the past twenty years and I'm willing to bet that in twenty years, Paying for It and Gutted will be on the top ten list of any crime list. But now comes Loss ... Phew-oh ... It's like having yer ass kicked and yer heart shrived simultaneously. What a privilege to watch a master writer achieve everything you'd hoped for and then some' --Ken Bruen
'Tony Black delivers a story with a hard edge and fast moving action. In this third book, he yet again produces a story that never lets up and delivers a superb book that you just can't put down. I can't wait for the next instalment of Gus Dury'
--EuroCrime
'Black is one of those excellent perpetrators of Scottish noir ... a compelling and convincing portratyer of raw emotions in a vicious milieu' --Marcel Berlins, The Times
'A brilliant, sweeping and heartbreaking novel, Black truly deserves your attention' --International Thriller Writers
'As washed-up private detectives go, Gus Dury is compelling - he's as hard as any criminal and twice as self-destructive' --Evening Standard
'This is modern crime at its most brutal, its most affecting, its most honest and its most intelligent' --Russel D McLean, Do Some Damage
'Black writes about urban blight and the curse of alcohol like no other, but his down at heel tales are also full of everyday humour. Harrowing but indispensable'
--Maxim Jakubowski
'If you're a fan of the Ian Rankins, Denise Minas and Irvine Welshes of this world, this is most certainly one for you' --Scotsman
'The enigmatic Dury continues to be the punk rocker of the Scottish crime scene - anarchic, rebellious and never afraid to shove his Doc Martens where they're not wanted' --Daily Record
'Tony Black has written two of the finest crime novels to come out of the UK in the past twenty years and I'm willing to bet that in twenty years, Paying for It and Gutted will be on the top ten list of any crime list. But now comes Loss ... Phew-oh ... It's like having yer ass kicked and yer heart shrived simultaneously. What a privilege to watch a master writer achieve everything you'd hoped for and then some' --Ken Bruen
'Tony Black delivers a story with a hard edge and fast moving action. In this third book, he yet again produces a story that never lets up and delivers a superb book that you just can't put down. I can't wait for the next instalment of Gus Dury'
--EuroCrime
'Black is one of those excellent perpetrators of Scottish noir ... a compelling and convincing portratyer of raw emotions in a vicious milieu' --Marcel Berlins, The Times
'A brilliant, sweeping and heartbreaking novel, Black truly deserves your attention' --International Thriller Writers
'As washed-up private detectives go, Gus Dury is compelling - he's as hard as any criminal and twice as self-destructive' --Evening Standard
'This is modern crime at its most brutal, its most affecting, its most honest and its most intelligent' --Russel D McLean, Do Some Damage
'Black writes about urban blight and the curse of alcohol like no other, but his down at heel tales are also full of everyday humour. Harrowing but indispensable'
--Maxim Jakubowski
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Gus Dury returns with his darkest and most personal case yet
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Polished Black,
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This review is from: Loss (Gus Dury 3) (Hardcover)
If "Gutted" was a journeyman triumph, this latest aptly titled noir outing is the work of a master. Gus Dury has started to rebuild his shattered marriage and life, living once more with his soulmate Debs, only to find himself unable to leave the investigation of his little brother's sudden murder to the 'plod'.
Character writing of the minor characters has improved now, too, and each of them comes to life if only for a chapter, in a way that leaves them imprinted even when the book is over. Tony Black's language and style have smoothened and strengthened, his pace settling into a dark and inevitable groove. He makes writing the self-destructive investigator look easy now as Gus Dury rides his fine line of self-control and self-loathing to an inevitable yet still horridly surprising conclusion. Dury's first-person narrative is simple, clean, and logical -- it's hard to imagine him doing anything other than what he does, and yet it's obvious that it will keep going horribly wrong. In fact, I was further endeared to Dury as he became less impulsive, planning and scheming and sharing and becoming all the more human, though his good intentions seem to backfire even more than his previous hotheadedness. "Loss" lifts Dury from tragic figure to tragic hero, and that's high praise indeed.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Your Loss if you don't buy this,
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This review is from: Loss (Gus Dury 3) (Hardcover)
The Gus Dury series is taken to another level in his third outing. The language is more biting and simply dripping with emotion. It might only be January but I'll be very surprised to read a better book this year.
Loss simply has everything. Reeling from the death of his brother, Gus is fighting the temptations that left him a broken man; without a wife and a home. Off the booze, he's back sharing a flat with his ex-missus Debs and things are going as well as he can expect them. When Michael is shot, you know the whole house of cards is going to come crashing down. Reunited with his ever-loyal, tooled-up buddies, Mac and Hod, Gus sets out on a rollercoaster ride of a revenge mission. He drives ever deeper into the Edinburgh only its most scarred population even know exists, behind the tourist traps, away from the castle's shadow. The dark heart of the matter is brought to the fore in a thrilling, twisting denouement that will have you, like Gus so often in the past, reaching for the 12-year-old Macallan.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant Stuff,
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This review is from: Loss (Gus Dury 3) (Hardcover)
Gus Dury is back with his wife, Debs, although their relationship is fragile. Also fragile is Gus' new-found sobriety. Relationship and sobriety are both threatened when Gus' brother is murdered and Gus, needless to say, resists all exhortations to leave the investigation to the police. His own attempts to find his brother's killer put him on the wrong side of just about everybody - the law, Debs, and some seriously dangerous men. Sometimes it seems as though Gus' only friends are his dog, Usual, and the unopened quarter bottle of whisky Gus keeps in his pocket. Luckily for Gus, he does have two good friends who step in and help him, without thought for their own safety. As Gus struggles to come to terms with the loss of his brother, things get darker and more dangerous. Wonderfully written, tough, edgy, and very dark, but with the odd flash of humour, LOSS made me cry at the end.
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