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Butcher Hardcover – 3 July 2006

by Campbell Armstrong (Author)

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Detective Lou Perlman has become an outcast from police HQ, doomed by a sadistic Chief-Superintendent to a seemingly infinite 'sick-list'. Deprived of doing battle with Glasgow's criminal underworld - which he needs the way a junkie needs a fix - he's barred from participating in the investigation of the bloodbath that has rocked the foundations of the city's lower depths. A new man has powered and blasted his way to the top of Glasgow's gangster fraternity, Reuben Chuck, a villain who promotes cruelty and murder even as he pursues an inscrutable religious awakening of his own. Only a gruesome discovery made in Perlman's own house invigorates him, and launches him into a simple inquiry that quickly becomes a ganglia of perplexities - the whereabouts of his missing love Miriam, body parts, a seemingly haunted house, dubious part-time surgeons, a mob of dangerous hooded teenagers, a ferret, and his own family's history - all leading, inexorably, strangely, to the deathly terrain of Reuben Chuck. In "Butcher", nothing is ever cleancut.

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Publisher : Allison & Busby (3 July 2006)
Language : English
Hardcover : 399 pages
ISBN-10 : 0749081414
ISBN-13 : 978-0749081416
Dimensions : 14.9 x 22.4 x 4.2 cm

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'Campbell Armstrong - the literary equivalent of an AK47' The Glasgow Daily Record Armstrong is a wonderfully atmospheric writer who shines a light into the dark corners of the human heart' The Sunday Telegraph 'The joy in Armstrong's novel is his effortless flicks of characterisation, his bittersweet insights. ...Armstrong's skill is not just an eye for a criminally good tale but a passion for the people that will populate it.' The Scotsman

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Campbell Armstrong was born in Glasgow. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Sussex, and has taught creative writing at the State University of New York and at Arizona State University. After 20 years in the USA he moved to Ireland with his wife Rebecca. Armstrong has written numerous bestsellers during his career and his latest series featuring Lou Perlman has proved hugely successful. Armstrong has three sons and a daughter, and lives in an old house in Glasgow reputed to be haunted.

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stephen cassidy

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2015

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kathleen russell

Great Read, Best in series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 May 2015

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Great Read,Best in series.

Chris

Great read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2015

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Very enjoyable read! Loved reading about all the places in Glasgow familiar to me.

johnverp

Another good one from a Master!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2006

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A great and somewhat grisly story with some wonderful language and insights as Armstrong takes us into the belly of Glasgow. From start to finish the book had me hooked - hard to get bored with a story without slow moments.

If there is a disappointment, it would be that there could have been more closure on some issues. This reads "sequel" to me and if the standard can be maintained we will be enjoying another good read in the not too distant future.

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