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Slammer Tapa dura - 2009 - 1st Edición
de Allan Guthrie
Newbie prison officer Mark Cunningham struggles to cope with bullying colleagues and threats to his family from well connected inmates. When he finally reaches the boiling point one savage night, the inhabitants of C-Hall start to regret the things they’ve said and done to young Mr Cunningham.
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Newly minted prison officer Nicholas Glass has fallen in with the wrong crowd at "The Hilton," a Scottish prison for violent offenders. The problem is, there's no right crowd. Bullied and abused by inmates and colleagues alike, Glass finds that each day is getting longer than the one before. When a group of cons use outside help to threaten his wife and daughter, he agrees to do them a 'favor'. But, as their threats escalate, and one favor leads to another, he grows ever closer to breaking point. And when Glass breaks, he shatters...Slammer is a mile-a-minute thriller shot through with Guthrie's unique blend of dark humor and ultra-violent mayhem. His previous books have been lauded as "gripping noir" (Entertainment Weekly) and "character driven and exciting" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).
Detalles
- Título Slammer
- Autor Allan Guthrie
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 263
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Houghton Mifflin, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2009-11-18
- ISBN 9780151012954 / 0151012954
- Peso 0.98 libras (0.44 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.08 x 6.28 x 0.9 pulgadas (23.06 x 15.95 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Prisoners, Noir fiction
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2009013273
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Noir exposé of an Edinburgh prison guard.
Nicholas Glass, barely 22, married and the father of a 4-year old, takes the only job on offer, at Edinburgh’s facetiously nicknamed prison, The Hilton. The more experienced guards poke fun at him, and the prisoners, who make shanks and machetes in the prison tool shop, set him up as their new drug mule. Veteran convict Caesar commands his obedience by setting Watt, an underling he has on the outside, to threaten Nicholas’ wife and daughter. Nicholas turns to Watt’s brother Mafia, a nearly blind inmate, for help, but when none is forthcoming he begins to siphon off drugs for his personal use to deal with the stress. As his habit escalates, his marriage deteriorates. His wife drinks and complains and threatens to pack up and leave. Glass buys a gun to rid his family of Watt once and for all, but the cons, who have tapes of his drug involvement, blackmail him into engineering a prison breakout. The plot leads to murder, both inside and outside The Hilton, and leaves Glass gibbering on his bedroom floor, soaked in blood, cradling a finger stump and ready for psychiatric incarceration.
Hard-boiled and then some, with no reprieve for the emotionally squeamish. Guthrie (Savage Night, 2008, etc.) has more plot twists up his sleeve than a Vegas card shark, and each is as clever as it is horrific.
Nicholas Glass, barely 22, married and the father of a 4-year old, takes the only job on offer, at Edinburgh’s facetiously nicknamed prison, The Hilton. The more experienced guards poke fun at him, and the prisoners, who make shanks and machetes in the prison tool shop, set him up as their new drug mule. Veteran convict Caesar commands his obedience by setting Watt, an underling he has on the outside, to threaten Nicholas’ wife and daughter. Nicholas turns to Watt’s brother Mafia, a nearly blind inmate, for help, but when none is forthcoming he begins to siphon off drugs for his personal use to deal with the stress. As his habit escalates, his marriage deteriorates. His wife drinks and complains and threatens to pack up and leave. Glass buys a gun to rid his family of Watt once and for all, but the cons, who have tapes of his drug involvement, blackmail him into engineering a prison breakout. The plot leads to murder, both inside and outside The Hilton, and leaves Glass gibbering on his bedroom floor, soaked in blood, cradling a finger stump and ready for psychiatric incarceration.
Hard-boiled and then some, with no reprieve for the emotionally squeamish. Guthrie (Savage Night, 2008, etc.) has more plot twists up his sleeve than a Vegas card shark, and each is as clever as it is horrific.
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