Bøger af Malcolm Mackay

Nel capitolo finale della "Trilogia di Glasgow", che ha per protagonista un giovane killer in carriera, le bande criminali della città danno vita a una vera e propria guerra, destinata a lasciarsi dietro una lunga scia di sangue e morte.È arrivato il momento della resa dei conti. Le alleanze nella malavita si sono rotte, una serie di morti eccellenti prepara il terreno allo scontro finale. Calum MacLean, ormai pluriomicida, decide di ritirarsi, anche se sa troppe cose e lo cercano in tanti. Ma un killer vive nell’ombra e sa come sparire.Con quest’ultimo romanzo, Malcolm MacKay mette il punto fermo a una serie thriller davvero al cardiopalma, che ha conquistato pubblico e critica con la sua trascinante suspense e un’impareggiabile descrizione del crimine organizzato scozzese.© 2018 Società Editrice Milanese (P)2023 Saga EgmontMalcolm Mackay (Stornoway, 1981) è un indiscusso maestro della crime story britannica.

Nel secondo capitolo della "Trilogia di Glasgow", in una Scozia che ribolle di criminalità, un giovane killer viene incaricato di assassinarne un altro, un autentico veterano del mestiere che ha la sola colpa di aver commesso un singolo sbaglio.MacLeod è ancora il sicario più temuto della città, ma non più il migliore, ormai. Nonostante la sua esperienza, infatti, compie un imperdonabile errore e si infila in un guaio. La criminalità organizzata non può passarci sopra, e un killer che fallisce è un uomo morto.Un’altra avventura a sfondo hard-boiled, un altro romanzo mozzafiato, con cui Malcolm MacKay torna a farci conoscere la Glasgow del crimine organizzato.© 2018 Società Editrice Milanese (P)2023 Saga EgmontMalcolm Mackay (Stornoway, 1981) è un indiscusso maestro della crime story britannica.

Nel primo capitolo dell’avvincente "Trilogia di Glasgow", un killer freelance, schivo e rispettato, è incaricato di uccidere un giovane pusher che sta cercando di estendere il suo impero.La giovane leva Calum MacLean è un sicario con poca esperienza ma con delle indiscutibili capacità. Nemmeno MacLeod, il più temuto assassino di Glasgow, può negarlo. MacLean dovrà far fuori Lewis Winter, un fastidioso spacciatore con delle pericolose ambizioni, che si accompagna alla seducente Zara Cope. Inutile dire che è più semplice a dirsi che a farsi...Malcolm MacKay, senz’altro il narratore più adatto a guidarci in un sottobosco di malavita e affari loschi, firma la prima parte di un trittico mozzafiato, ambientato in una Glasgow che non è mai stata più oscura di così...© 2018 Società Editrice Milanese (P)2023 Saga EgmontMalcolm Mackay (Stornoway, 1981) è un indiscusso maestro della crime story britannica.

Nessuno racconta la malavita made in Scotland meglio di Malcolm Mackay. Con la trilogia di Glasgow, che il lettore italiano ha conosciuto solo per il primo capitolo, La morte necessaria di Lewis Winter, prende fuoco l’intreccio di un formidabile romanzo criminale. In La morte necessaria di Lewis Winter, conosciamo Calum MacLean, un killer freelance, schivo e rispettato, ‘il migliore della nuova leva’ per MacLeod, sicario veterano: un uomo che sa uccidere e scomparire, senza lasciare traccia. A Calum viene commissionata l’uccisione di un giovane pusher che sta cercando di estendere il suo impero e vive con Zara Cope, una bomba sexy dai vizi costosi. In Come muore un killer, ‘secondo tempo’ della trilogia, ritroviamo MacLeod, il sicario più temuto di Glasgow. Non il migliore, ormai. Nonostante la sua esperienza compie un errore e si infila in un guaio. La criminalità organizzata non perdona, e un killer che fallisce è un uomo morto. Calum MacLean, accetta il compito di farlo fuori. Infine, Il sangue all’improvviso si apre con una resa dei conti tra ‘bastardi’. Le alleanze nella malavita si sono rotte, una serie di morti eccellenti prepara il terreno allo scontro finale. Calum MacLean, ormai pluriomicida, decide di ritirarsi, anche se sa troppe cose e lo cercano in tanti. Ma un killer vive nell’ombra e sa come sparire.Malcolm Mackay (Stornoway, 1981) è un indiscusso maestro della crime story britannica. Il suo precedente "La morte necessaria di Lewis Winter", primo tempo di una premiatissima trilogia, è stato pubblicato in Italia da Mondadori.

Scotland has been a proudly independent country for centuries. But success has now turned sour. A novel of crime and corruption set in a brooding, rain-swept Scottish city that is compellingly different from the one we think we know.

A novel of crime and corruption is set in a brooding, rain-swept Scottish city burdened by a history that is compellingly different from the one we think we know.

Longlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller 2015.There's nothing so terrifying as money . . .Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up on Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of the city's darkest and most dangerous trades. But while one rises quickly up the ranks, the other will fall prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle and ever-spiralling debts.Meanwhile, the three most powerful rivals in the business - Marty Jones, ruthless pimp; Potty Cruickshank, member of the old guard; and Billy Patterson, brutal newcomer - vie for prominence. And now Peterkinney, young and darkly ambitious, is beginning to make himself known . . .Before long, violence will spill out onto the streets, as those at the top make deadly attempts to out-manoeuvre one another for a bigger share of the spoils. Peterkinney and Glass will find themselves at the very centre of this war; and as the pressure builds, each will find their actions - and inactions - coming back to haunt them. But it is those they love who will suffer most . . .From the award-winning author of the Glasgow Trilogy, The Night the Rich Men Burned is a novel for our times, and Malcolm Mackay's most ambitious work to date.

A multi-layered and unnerving portrait of gangland Glasgow, For Those Who Know the Ending is the gripping novel from the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy, Malcolm Mackay. He has to clear thoughts of Joanne and thoughts of the past out of his mind. He has to think about himself, his situation. Think about the next hour . . . In that hour, everything will be decided. It's been almost two hours. Two hours, and Martin Sivok is still tied up, alone in a darkened warehouse; plastic strips digging into the soft flesh of his wrists. He wants them to come back. Get this over with. But he also knows that as soon as they return, this could very well be his ending.Because Martin has messed up. Stolen dirty money he should never have touched. Dirty money that the Jamieson organization, the most dangerous criminal outfit in Glasgow, wants back. Someone has to die for this. And over the next few hours, he has to work out how that somebody can be anyone but him . . .

Longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2016.From the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy, comes Every Night I Dream of Hell, a dark and thrilling Glaswegian crime drama.Nate Colgan: a violent man; 'smart muscle' for the Jamieson organization. Someone to be afraid of. But now, with its most powerful individuals either dead or behind bars, things within the Jamieson organization are beginning to shift. When Nate, long working on the fringes of the business, is reluctantly appointed its new 'security consultant', he can little imagine how things are about to unravel . . . It begins with an execution, a message; and soon the various factions within the organization are sent into chaos. But out of the confusion comes one clear fact: a new group has arrived in Glasgow, and in their quest for power they are prepared to ignite a war. But who is behind the group? And why has the calculating Zara Cope - the mother of Nate's child - suddenly appeared back in town?Meanwhile DI Fisher, buoyed by his recent successes in finally jailing some of the city's most notorious criminals, is prowling on the edges of these latest battles, looking for his chance to strike before all hell breaks loose . . .In Every Night I Dream of Hell Malcolm Mackay takes us deep into a world of violence, fear and double-crossing that grips until the final page has been turned.

It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two of Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And as Detective Michael Fisher knows, the biggest - and bloodiest - manoeuvres are yet to come . . . The stunning conclusion to Malcolm Mackay's lauded Glasgow Trilogy, The Sudden Arrival of Violence will return readers to the city's underworld: a place of dark motives, dangerous allegiances and inescapable violence . . .

"Impeccable Connections: The Rise and Fall of Richard Whitney" traces the fascinating trajectory of a Massachusetts Brahmin who was president of the New York Stock Exchange in the early 1930s. "Whitney fought every attempt by the Federal Government to regulate the exchange back then because it was "perfect" as it was. Widely regarded even by patrician friends as an insufferable snob, with a background from Groton, Harvard, and New Jersey foxhunting country, after Prohibition he bet all his money on a company called Distilled Liquors Corporation whose principal product was "New Jersey lightning" - hard cider. When lightning failed to strike, this symbol of Wall Street integrity tried to support his company's stock price by borrowing money and secretly stealing clients' assets to cover his mounting debts until the scheme finally collapsed and he went off to prison. A self-righteous confidence man - he couldn't get away with that today, could he? Read this spellbinding book, which repeatedly takes your breath away, and learn that some things never change." -Craig R. Whitney, author of "Living with Guns: A Liberal's case for the Second Amendment.""From the opening scene of Richard Whitney striding on to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Black Thursday, 1929 Malcolm Mackay had me hooked. The story of Whitney's rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the great untold stories of American financial history no more. A fascinating book about one of the biggest scandals and scoundrels in American finance. Malcolm Mackay's tale of Richard Whitney's descent from Master of the fox hunt to prisoner at Sing Sing reads like a novel, but is unbelievably true!" -Consuelo Mack, Anchor and Executive Producer, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack"Malcolm MacKay has succeeded at the seemingly impossible task of writing a charming and sympathetic account of an utterly unsympathetic scoundrel. MacKay writes with an insider's knowledge of Richard Whitney (whom he personally knew) and the world in which Whitney lived and worked. The happy result is financial history at its most vivid and readable. " - James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer"That Richard Whitney's extraordinary life of hubris and deceit hasn't been the subject of a book of nonfiction is a bewildering oversight. Malcolm MacKay has filled the void with an irresistible account that he was uniquely qualified to write."-G. Bruce Knecht, author of Grand Ambition: An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and the Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford ItIMPECCABLE CONNECTIONS is both a biography of an important figure and an excellent primer on the reasons for securities regulations that are in today's headlines.Malcolm MacKay is a lawyer and businessman who, as a boy and young man, knew Richard Whitney in his post-prison years. MacKay has thought about Whitney, and why he did what he did, all his life. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.