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As Glasgow's best known hard man (albeit rehabilitated), there's no denying Jimmy Boyle's credentials when it comes to writing a novel such as this. But wielding a razor against unlucky opponents in one's youth isn't exactly a training for a writing career, and though Boyle has established himself as a writer of genuine sociological gifts, the novel is a whole different ballgame. Within pages of Hero of the Underworld, it's clear that Boyle has been able to parley his bloody experience into a taught and extremely well-written crime novel. After 10 years inside, the eponymous Hero is back on the streets. Coming to terms with a changed and dangerous new world of spivs, violent criminals, dead-end jobs and grisly accommodation, it's a Herculean effort just to survive. And when Hero finds himself organising a motley crew of former mental hospital patients to take a stand against the collected might of the underworld, the results are often surprisingly comic as well as tense. In fact, the blackly comic aspects of Boyle's debut novel are often the most beguiling surprise here: the authenticity of the tangy dialogue is something you'd expect as a matter of course. This tragi-comic chronicle of the disadvantaged handles its themes of danger and redemption with assurance and verve. --Barry Forshaw
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After ten hard years inside, Hero is out. Released into a mystifying and dangerous world of spivs, crooks, bad jobs and lousy accommodation, he slowly starts to fight back. Hero leads a gang of ex-mental hospital patients - Lockjaw, Bonecrusher and Sligo - in a stand against the might of the underworld. His outlandish plans to thwart his persecutors escalate from stealing a prize bull, to grand theft, and on to the most dangerous heist in town. By the end Hero will either be free at last, or six feet under... Hero of the Underworld is a darkly humorous, uplifting tale of redemption, and of getting even in the strangest way imaginable.
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As Glasgow's best known hard man (albeit rehabilitated), there's no denying Jimmy Boyle's credentials when it comes to writing a novel such as this. But wielding a razor against unlucky opponents in one's youth isn't exactly a training for a writing career, and though Boyle has established himself as a writer of genuine sociological gifts, the novel is a whole different ballgame. Within pages of Hero of the Underworld, it's clear that Boyle has been able to parley his bloody experience into a taught and extremely well-written crime novel. After 10 years inside, the eponymous Hero is back on the streets. Coming to terms with a changed and dangerous new world of spivs, violent criminals, dead-end jobs and grisly accommodation, it's a Herculean effort just to survive. And when Hero finds himself organising a motley crew of former mental hospital patients to take a stand against the collected might of the underworld, the results are often surprisingly comic as well as tense. In fact, the blackly comic aspects of Boyle's debut novel are often the most beguiling surprise here: the authenticity of the tangy dialogue is something you'd expect as a matter of course. This tragi-comic chronicle of the disadvantaged handles its themes of danger and redemption with assurance and verve. --Barry Forshaw
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After ten hard years inside, Hero is out. Released into a mystifying and dangerous world of spivs, crooks, bad jobs and lousy accommodation, he slowly starts to fight back. Hero leads a gang of ex-mental hospital patients - Lockjaw, Bonecrusher and Sligo - in a stand against the might of the underworld. His outlandish plans to thwart his persecutors escalate from stealing a prize bull, to grand theft, and on to the most dangerous heist in town. By the end Hero will either be free at last, or six feet under... Hero of the Underworld is a darkly humorous, uplifting tale of redemption, and of getting even in the strangest way imaginable.
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