Bloody January (A Harry McCoy Thriller)

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The book doesn't pull any punches in its violence or language and is certainly grim in places, making it a great portrayal of those times. Bloody January is a startlingly excellent addition to the Scottish crime scene, even more so as a debut. Black January ( Azerbaijani: Qara Yanvar), also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani nationalism and anti-Soviet sentiment in Baku on 19–20 January 1990, as part of a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. His love of music, musician lore, and even the industry, comes through in his prize-winning mysteries, which are saturated with the atmosphere of the 1970s music scene, grubby and drug-addled as it often was. The Ubiquitous Chip was/is a pub below the University where I asked for a pint of bitter, that got the barman and the patrons lips curling immediately.

The trials and tribulations of Detective Harry McCoy and the various characters in the Glasgow underworld that he has to deal with. Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U. Under an intense media focus, McCoy and his rookie partner, Wattie, haunt the streets of Glasgow and its criminal underbelly to try and get a handle on what happened and why. Taking his green new partner, Wattie, McCoy goes to the busy bus station closest to Lorna’s restaurant but fails to save her from a frantic teenage hit man who shoots in McCoy’s direction but hits Lorna instead.During the Black January crackdown, Soviet authorities managed to suppress all efforts to disseminate news from Azerbaijan to the local population and the international community. UPHEAVAL IN THE EAST: SOVIET UNION; Force as a Last Resort: Armed Power Salvages Moscow's Facing Authority". McCoy is not best pleased being paired with someone who is his polar opposite but yet a friendship and understanding develops between the two men. Alan Parks, author of Bloody January, the debut novel featuring maverick detective Harry McCoy has done something remarkable with his book: As John Niven, himself a bestselling novelist, says “[he has created a story which is]…taut, violent and as close as you’ll get to 1970s Glasgow without a Tardis.

While he works hard to put away the guilty, he has a soft spot for those who are down on their luck. When we meet him Harry’s partnered off with a younger police officer – too new and shiny for Harry’s liking, but Wattie proves himself to be trustworthy and an eager pupil.Nairn tells him to take care of a certain Lorna who works in a posh restaurant and is likely to be killed the next day. I think that’s an age when things go in deep, even though at the time you are completely self-absorbed and don’t register them. His heart is in the right place and all the other seemingly inappropriate things he does are almost entirely product of his background and the environment he has grown up in. Arriving too late to stop the killing, he’s plunged into a case with implications that reach far beyond a single murder.

Defence Minister Yazov also said that nationalists were plotting a coup d'état in Azerbaijan: "A meeting was planned at which it was proposed to declare the transfer of power into the hands of the People's Front.McCoy himself is flawed, due to both his past and his current lifestyle, but it is this and his connections that make him such a useful officer despite his many failings.

In connection with a dramatic escalation of the situation in the city of Baku, attempts of criminal extremist forces to remove from power by organizing mass unrest legally acting state authorities and in the interests of the protection and security of citizens, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, guided by point 14 of the article 119 of the Constitution of the USSR, decrees: To declare since 20 January 1990 state of emergency in the city of Baku, by extending to its territory the effect of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 15 January 1990. Indeed, Harry’s lack of respect for many of his colleagues is a reflection of the quality of the police force at the time. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M. Because of the actions of Mirza Khazar and his staff at Radio Liberty, Azerbaijanis in and outside Azerbaijan, as well as the international community, learned about the actions of the Soviet Army and were able to organize a protest.He has his own set of rules when it comes to keeping the peace that includes a close relationship w