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La Morte Necessaria Di Lewis Winter (2014)

by Malcolm Mackay(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8852046976 (ISBN13: 9788852046971)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Mondadori

series

Glasgow Underworld Trilogy

review 1: I’ve read a number of positive reviews of The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter so I thought I’d give it a go. The story focuses on MacLean’s life as a hitman, setting out his observations as to what makes a successful career, his worries about being drawn into an organisation rather than operating as a freelance, and the lead up and aftermath of killing Lewis Winter. The tale has its moments and the almost documentary style narrative is an interesting approach. However, sometimes a book clicks for a reader and other times it doesn’t and I never really warmed to the story. Mackay’s writing voice felt too detached, there was no sense of place and story could have been happening anywhere, and I never built an emotional connection to the characters or the tale. A... mores a consequence, although the book has it merits it unfortunately left me a little cold.
review 2: Short sentences, deceptively simple language, description kept to a minimum yet with characters you could pick out of a line up. This is the first book by Malcolm MacKay and part of his Glasgow trilogy. Mackay has been hailed as the latest addition to Tartan Noir but that is selling him far too short. A villain is a villain the world over and anyone, from any city, in any country, would recognize the hard-boiled ethos of the hitman central character, the cop on his tail and the sleazy, dangerous world in which he is forced to survive. Brilliant! less

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