Bloody January (A Harry McCoy Thriller)

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The state of emergency was, however, disclosed to the Azerbaijani public only several hours [6] after the beginning of the offensive, when many citizens already lay dead or wounded in the streets, hospitals and morgues of Baku. An exciting, evocative first-in-series noir novel set in 1973 Glasgow, a city on the cusp of a heroin epidemic, featuring detective Harry McCoy. The Ubiquitous Chip was/is a pub below the University where I asked for a pint of bitter, that got the barman and the patrons lips curling immediately. This was a very graphic novel - there are some particularly vicious characters leading to some brutal scenes, but this is how it was during that particular period, with its proliferation of gangsters, cops taking back handers, and hard drugs becoming more readily available, and our protagonist is no stranger to any of these!

Before too long, McCoy will be chatting up a sociology postgraduate student, asking her about feminism. The decree contravened legal acts in force at the time, which provided that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the AzSSR would have to turn to the central government with the relevant plea. With a newbie partner in tow, McCoy uses his underworld network to build a picture of a secret society run by Glasgow's wealthiest family, the Dunlops. The informant is found with his tongue cut off and his throat slit in the showers of Barlinnie and nobody is talking. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

In a helter-skelter tale - winding from moneyed elite to hipster music groupies to the brutal gangs of the urban wasteland - Bloody January brings to life the dark underbelly of 1970s Glasgow and establishes Alan Parks as a new and exciting voice in Scottish noir. Fans of McIlvanney’s Laidlaw books and Oliver Harris’ The Hollow Man, Ian Rankin’s and Dennis Lehane’s fiction, and TV shows like Idris Elba’s Luther will find themselves thoroughly satisfied here.Niven is a biased witness – he and Parks are friends, and without his encouragement this novel probably wouldn’t exist – but that doesn’t stop him being right on this occasion. Black January ( Azerbaijani: Qara Yanvar), also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani nationalism and anti-Soviet sentiment in Baku on 19–20 January 1990, as part of a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This was followed by a non-violent turnover of the Lankaran administration to the Popular Front two weeks later. But Mirza Khazar and his staff at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty succeeded in broadcasting daily reports from Baku, [30] making it the only source of news to Azerbaijanis within and outside of the country for several days.