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Alan Parks is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of the Harry McCoy series, which has won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year, the Prix Mystere de la Critique award and an Edgar Award. Gunner is the first in a new and thrilling international crime series set during the Second World War featuring Joseph Gunner. Alan worked in the music industry for over twenty years before turning to writing. He now lives and works in Glasgow.
A notably original protagonist . . . swept up in a high-level conspiracy reaching from Whitehall's corridors of power to Berlin and Rudolf Hess's doomed flight to Scotland . . . enthralling * Financial Times * Parks's characters jump out at you and the story fizzes with history and colour. A brilliant thriller to kick off a new series -- Bill Todd * Sun * Great storytelling, and a gripping insight into war-torn Glasgow - I loved it -- Peter James, #1 bestselling author of the Roy Grace series Great stuff . . . a vivid sense of place and time and what a main character! -- Ian Rankin, #1 bestselling author of the Rebus series A superb thriller with a gripping, constantly surprising plot, vividly realised characters and brutally authentic descriptions of both Glasgow's Blitz and the bleak realities of war on the Home Front. Parks's new series is one to watch -- Andrew Taylor, author of THE SHADOWS OF LONDON A brilliant milieu, fantastic characters, an exciting story - in other words another typically great Alan Parks novel -- Adrian McKinty, author of Sunday Times bestseller, THE CHAIN What a fantastic start to a new series and I cannot wait to find out what Gunner does next. It's meticulously researched, but with a beautiful light touch that transports you to the streets of war-torn Glasgow and the lives of everyday folk doing their best to survive. A gritty, immersive, genuine page-turner. And what a compelling hero we have in Gunner: hardbitten, battle-scarred and far from perfect, but striving to do the right thing in a world riddled with corruption and deceit -- Bridget Walsh, author of the Variety Palace Mysteries A fabulous read. I loved every minute of it. Alan's storytelling pulls the reader in from page one. Wonderful, gutsy writing. Gunner is a tremendous character, as tough as a Glaswegian shipyard hammer -- David Gilman, author of the Master of War series Alan Parks's Gunner brings World War noir to the mean streets of Glasgow, setting a jaundiced eye onto a slice of history rarely explored in crime fiction. A lean, mean and ruthlessly readable thriller -- Vaseem Khan, author of CITY OF DESTRUCTION Parks has garnered a reputation for authentic, lived-in worlds, populated by flawed but compelling characters . . . The story has a fantastic ability to turn left just when the reader thinks things are going right . . . This is a living, breathing, loveable but punishing Second World War mystery and we can't wait to see where it goes next -- Simon Ward, Publishing Director Ian Fleming Publications
