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by Allan Guthrie
How much blood would you spill to avenge those you love?
Andy Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks he’s discovered a way to make his family’s enemies pay. He isn’t prepared for the fallout, though, when his teenage son is put in mortal danger and his daughter and her fiancé are forced to carry out his dirty work.
And yet Park’s world is peachy in comparison to Tommy Savage’s. A masked man known only as Mr. Smith is blackmailing Savage—for what, he has no idea. And after an attempt to gain the upper hand has near-fatal results, Tommy and his brother, Phil, find themselves heading to a graveyard with only a couple of swords and a bag of cash for company.
Will they survive the night?
Will anyone?
With equal parts blood phobia and blood lust, Allan Guthrie’s Savage Night unfolds over six short blood-blind hours in Scotland’s capital city.
"Starred Review. In the ensuing mayhem the two families wreak enough havoc on each other to satisfy Shakespeare. Fans of Ken Bruen, Derek Raymond and Jim Thompson will love this stylish, blood-drenched tartan noir." - Publishers Weekly.
"Edgar nominee Guthrie's earlier works may have more humor, but all emphasize the mean Scottish streets with just a few heroes in sight. This contemporary version of the hard-boiled pulps is not for the squeamish. For larger crime fiction collections." - Library Journal.
"Breakneck pace, addictively slangy prose and gallows humor. Guthrie is certainly an original." - Kirkus Reviews.
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Allan Guthrie is the author of Two-Way Split, which was nominated for the British Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger and received the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award; Kiss Her Goodbye, which was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Gumshoe awards; and Savage Night. He lives in Scotland.
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