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Dan Scoular accepts an offer from a Glasgow underworld figure to train for an illegal, bareknuckle fight, hoping the money will save his marriage, but soon discovers that human decency itself is at stake
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'Like Docherty, another masterpiece' The Scotsman
About the Author
William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. He died in December 2015.
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0688064051
- ISBN 13 9780688064051
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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