Why a Booktrail?
2022: Glasgow is a city in mourning.
May God Forgive
Why a Booktrail?
2022: Glasgow is a city in mourning.
What you need to know before your trail
Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser’s has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high.
When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but as the police drive the young men to prison, the van is rammed by a truck, and the men are grabbed and bundled into a car. The next day, the body of one of them is dumped in the city centre. A note has been sent to the newspaper: one down, two to go.
Detective Harry McCoy has twenty-four hours to find the kidnapped boys before they all turn up dead, and it is going to mean taking down some of Glasgow’s most powerful people to do it . . .
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Glasgow
This novel showcases 1974/5 Glasgow in all its grime and glory.
The weather is awful throughout. So much rain you have to keep your wellies on at all times when reading this. McCoy has a stomach ulcer, so the pain adds to the overall mood of the novel.
This shows the raw and the bloody side of Glasgow. Within the police stations, we wee the office politics and corruption too.
Grimly fascinating.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: May God Forgive
Destination: Glasgow Author/guide: Liam McIlvanney Departure Time: 1975
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