WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER
'A bloody good read' VAL McDERMID
'The pure distilled essence of Scottish crime writing' PETER MAY
'Brilliant . . . Grips like a mangling handshake' SUNDAY TIMES
Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in Eck's cryptic last message a clue to the murder of a gangland thug and the disappearance of a student. With stubborn integrity, Laidlaw tracks a seam of corruption that runs from the top to the bottom of society.
Acclaimed for its corrosive wit, dark themes and original maverick detective, the Laidlaw trilogy has earned the status of classic crime fiction.