THE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER

Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B57312

English Summary/英文概要： The first novel in a projected trilogy, which depicts a brutal world in which there are no second chances from the point-of-view of a young hit man.

A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organisation wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A brief. A target: Lewis Winter. It’s hard to kill a man well. People who do it well know this. People who do it badly find out the hard way. The hard way has consequences. An arresting, gripping novel of dark relationships and even darker moralities, The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter introduces a remarkable new voice in crime fiction. The sequel How A Gunman Says Goodbye will follow soon . .

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书作为即将问世的该三部曲系列之开篇，讲述了有关于一个残酷世界的故事，在年轻的职业杀手眼中，这个世界唯一的法则便是：一举成功。

一名29岁的男子独居在他位于格拉斯哥的公寓之中。电话铃响，看似一段与往常无异的漫谈，殊不知背后却是一项全新的工作任务。倘若有心，找到线索绝非难事。男子显然是专家。他是一名独行侠，一名自由职业者。接受一项新的任务小菜一碟，他担心的是组织背后无止境的贪婪与索取。俱乐部中的一次会面，简洁的话语，任务目标：刘易斯•温特。神不知鬼不觉的让一个人从世界上消失，对于行家而言，轻而易举；而对于非专业人事，无疑艰难无比。而一旦处理不当，问题便会接踵而至。《在劫难逃》是一部摄人心魄的作品，有关于黑暗关系甚至更为黑暗的道德问题，是犯罪小说界一道全新的回荡之声。其续篇《杀手的告别之旅》即将问世。。。。。。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：‘A remarkably original debut. It’s the story of a murder, but it stands out in a crowded market by being virtually back to front. There’s no quest for an unknown murderer, no race to avert a death – in fact, the detective character isn’t even introduced until some way into the novel . . . What emerges is a bleak, depressing, frighteningly plausible picture of Glasgow’s criminal underworld. The tension – and there’s a lot of it; this is a book that it would be hard not to finish in one sitting – builds as Calum’s plans near fruition, as Lewis goes about his life unaware, and as the realities of this dreary, dangerous world become clear. Mackay’s writing is cold, clinical, verging on the hardboiled. He specialises in short, snappy sentences. Usually truncated. Present tense. Odd again, but slightly addictive . . . The Scottish author, who has just turned 30, doesn’t go in for flowery descriptions, or tugging at the heartstrings, or even moral judgments . . . With small, quiet brushstrokes that it’s hard to see building up, Mackay turns each of his characters into real people – people with interests and back stories and all the small, inconsequential things that make up a life – and ends up with a wholly believable and unnerving portrait of organised crime’

‘精彩、精炼且充满乐趣的作品。期待第二部的问世。’艾伦•马西 ‘我一口气便阅完了本书。全书文风毫无丝毫渲染之意，结构简洁紧凑，却使得读者们情不自禁地书中各种非凡的人物形象所深深吸引。。。。。。作为一部精心创作的短篇小说，本书文风优美真挚，却又不乏虚实难辨的淳朴之处。’安•克里夫斯 VERA创始人 ‘一部精彩绝伦的原创处女作。。。。。。阅读本书，你很难不一鼓作气看到最后。。。。。。对于组织犯罪集团全然真实可信的刻画与描绘，同时不乏惊心动魄的紧张气氛穿插其间。’ 《观察家》 ‘作为犯罪小说界新人，马凯无疑受到了热烈欢迎，并被认为是该类小说中最具权威性且最真实的新生力量。。。。。。马凯的作品中的硬汉人物风格令人不由得回想起巅峰时代的雷蒙德•钱德勒与达谢尔•汉密特。’ 《苏格兰人》 ‘绝妙无比的处女作，残忍，睿智且构思精巧。’ 《星期日电讯报》 ‘马尔科姆•马凯精彩的处女作无疑为其奠定了苏格兰犯罪小说界最受期待与瞩目的新人形象。尽管无论从感觉与文风来看，《在劫难逃》都更美国化。。。。。。一部安静却无比精彩的黑帮传奇，充满着模糊不清的道德窘境。’ 马塞尔•柏林斯，《时代》

About the Author/作者介绍： 马尔科姆•马凯出生于英国斯托诺韦市，至今生活在当地。《在劫难逃》是其第一部小说作品，作为三部曲中的开篇，故事将其背景设立在格拉斯哥的下层犯罪社会。

Malcolm Mackay was born and grew up in Stornoway where he still lives. THE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER, his debut, is the first of a trilogy set in the Glasgow underworld.

Format:电子手稿

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：版权已售：英国: Mantle/Macmillan (2013年春季出版发行)
THE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER: UK: Mantle/Macmillan (pub January 2013); France: Liani Levi; Finland: Like; Germany: Fischer; Greece: Polis; Holland: Karakter; Italy: Mondadori; Poland: Muza; Spain: Siruela; Sweden: Forum

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