Gallowglass

(Paperback, Main)

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He's dead. So says his own newspaper, the Glasgow Gazette: Douglas Brodie, 25 January 1912-20 July 1947.

Just four weeks before, a senior banker was kidnapped. Brodie delivered the ransom money on the instructions of the abducted man's wife, but the drop went disastrously wrong. Brodie was coshed in the kidnappers' den. He woke with a gun in his hand next to a very dead banker with a bullet in his head.

The case against Brodie is watertight: the bullet comes from his own revolver, the banker's wife denies knowing him, and his pockets are stuffed with ransom notes. In an apparent act of desperation, Brodie cheats justice by committing suicide in his prison cell. Could this be the sordid end for a distinguished ex-copper, decorated soldier and man of parts

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Compelling story-telling at a dashing pace, with a superb eye for post-war Glasgow * Daily Mail *
There is much in Gallowglass to admire: the authority of voice, the period detail that brings the 1940s convincingly alive, the authentic feel of the various worlds the story inhabits... A John Buchan-like tale of a race against time * Scotsman *
Ferris has created a heady crime fiction cocktail. Mix standard Glasgow Grit, Tartan Noir, a redoubtable hero - Douglas Brodie - and top it off with a dash of the threadbare and desperate world of Britain in the years immediately after World War II * www.crimefictionlover.com *
Extraordinary... I just could not put (it) down until the nerve-racking conclusion * www.eurocrime.co.uk *
The new Ian Rankin * Daily Mail *
Gordon Ferris is the natural heir of Stevenson and Buchan -- Val McDermid

Author Bio

Gordon Ferris is an ex-techie in the Ministry of Defence. He is the author of the No. 1 bestselling e-book The Hanging Shed.