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Savage Night

ISBN: 9781846970962
Author: Allan Guthrie
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

Praise for Savage Night:

’A black comedy akin to the work of Christopher Brookmyre and Douglas Lindsay… If you have a robust sense of humour, you’ll love this,’ – The Observer

’Guthrie does mayhem and character, which puts him nearer a darker Brookmyre. Entertaining, funny, silly and smart,’ - The Herald

’The best noir writer in the country...easily the match for America’s finest in the genre,’ - The Scotsman

’A masterful exercise in pulp storytelling.’ - The List

’Savage Night is noir fiction at its best,’ - Eurocrime


Praise for Allan Guthrie:

‘I’m a big fan,’  – Ian Rankin

’Dark, twisted, violent, and brilliant.’ STUART MACBRIDE, author of Dying Light

’Allan Guthrie is a bare-knuckle storyteller with a twinkle in his eye and a knife in his boot.’
SEAN DOOLITTLE, author of The Clean-up

’Guthrie writes with an urgency, energy, cynical realism and mastery of casual violence that is rarely encountered in British crime writing.’ - Sunday Times

How much blood would you spill to avenge those you love? Andy Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks he’s discovered a way to make his family’s enemies pay. He isn’t prepared for the fall-out, though. Before long, his teenage son is in mortal danger, and his daughter and her fiancé are knee-deep in corpses. Meanwhile, a masked man known as Mr Smith is blackmailing Tommy Savage – for what, he has no idea. After an attempt to gain the upper hand has near-fatal results, Tommy and his brother find themselves heading to a graveyard with only a couple of swords and a bag of cash for company.

A blood-pumping tragi-comedy of love and violence, Savage Night unfolds over six frenetic hours in Scotland’s capital city.





Allan Guthrie was born in Orkney and now lives in Edinburgh with his wife, Donna. He has published several short stories in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Allan is webmaster/editor of Noir Originals, commissioning editor for both Pulp Originals and PointBlank Press, and a literary agent. Award nominations: CWA Debut Dagger, MWA Edgar Award, Mystery Ink Gumshoe Award and Anthony Award.

Visit his website at www.allanguthrie.co.uk.

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