The Hanging Shed - Gordon Ferris

Glasgow 1946. The last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now the war is over but victory's wine has soured and Brodie's back in Scotland to try and save his childhood friend Hugh Donovan from the gallows. Everyone thought Hugh was dead shot down in the war. Perhaps it would have been kinder if he had been killed. The man who returns from the war is unrecognisable: mutilated horribly burned. Hugh keeps his own company only venturing out for heroin to deaden the pain of his wounds. When a local boy is found raped and murdered there is only one suspect. Hugh claims he's innocent but a mountain of evidence says otherwise. Despite the hideousness of the crime ex-policeman Brodie feels compelled to try and help his one time friend. Working with advocate Samantha Campbell Brodie trawls the mean streets of the Gorbals and the green hills of western Scotland in their search for the truth. What they find is an unholy alliance of troublesome priests corrupt coppers and Glasgow's deadliest razor gang happy to slaughter to protect their dark and dirty secrets. As time runs out for the condemned man the murder tally of innocents starts to climb. When Sam Campbell disappears it's the last straw for Brodie and her reverts to his wartime role as a trained killer. It's them or him .

TITLE: The Hanging Shed

AUTHOR: Gordon Ferris

SKU: 9781848877696

PUBLISHER: Atlantic Books

DATE PUBLISHED: 01/03/2011

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 288

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 155 mm x 232 mm