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Glasgow, 1976. Jake McGinty and his gang are running around town, drinking, fighting and getting involved in all sorts of minor criminal activity. Then a scam goes wrong and dead bodies start to pile up. The police are quick to try to pin it on Jake - but are the real suspects closer to home?
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'Hugh Collins creates entertaingly devious characters and then mercilessly dispatches them, leaving the reader to mourn them as long as it takes for the next vicarious thrill to come along. No Smoke is a Glaswegian Goodfellas, with its vertiginous buzz accentuated by a steadfastly unjudgemental narrative voice.' Christopher Brookmyre
This is Hugh Collins' first foray into fiction. No Smoke is the first part of a trilogy set in the Glasgow underworld that will span twenty years - chronicling the changing fashions, politics and innumerable scams and wrong-doings.
In his autobiographical work Hugh Collins demonstrated a rare flair for dialogue and vernacular. And this novel brims with Glasgow patter that is utterly authentic - hilarious and dangerous.
Barney is an old scammer - a gentlemn outlaw who's roped in a coupld of younger hoodlums who are prepared to use extreme violence at the slightest hint of trouble. Jake and Skud are helping Barney pull a fast one on two Pakistani brothers. Only, the brothers are scamming too - fobbing Barney and his boys off with forged notes.
Celebrating their success in the infamous Woodside Inn, Barney and Jake's lecherous attitude and flamboyant spending arouse the suspicion of the bar manager - an ex-copper. Before he knows it, Barney is sitting with an untouched pint and two seriously assaulted 'Untouchables' from the Strathclyde police - while Jake and Skud, still armed, are now on the run.
In the meantime, Rashid the younger of the brothers has been picked up by the 'Untouchables' and has been beaten to death in a police cell ... but by who?
With consummate plotting, a host of brilliantly drawn rogues and an uncanny sense of pacing, No Smoke is set to do for Glasgow what Ian Rankin did for Edinburgh.
Only, unlike Rankin and the majority of crime writers, Hugh Collins knows the territory he's talking about.
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