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When he receives a mysterious letter on expensively embossed paper, reluctant investigator Gus Dury decides to take the case, if for no other reason than he needs the cash. But there’s something about his well-heeled client, Callum Urquhart, that doesn’t sit right with Dury.
Urquhart has travelled across the country to find his missing teenage daughter — who definitely doesn’t want to be found. As Dury gets closer to locating Caroline, what he uncovers is a web of lies and deceit and some painful realisations that lead back to his own tangled past.
Last Orders is a 14,000 word novella, first published in the Edinburgh Evening News, from the author of the Random House UK Gus Dury series: Paying for It, Gutted, Loss, and Long Time Dead – which is soon to be brought to the big screen by Richard Jobson.
Praise for the Gus Dury series by Tony Black:
‘Tony Black is the latest of the seemingly unending stream of good Scottish
crime writers who have in common the ability to portray vividly the
underbelly of Scottish inner-city criminality … The dialogue fizzes
and the whole is suffused with black humour’
-The Times
‘If you’re a fan of the Ian Rankins, Denise Minas and Irvine Welshes
of this world, this is most certainly one for you’
-The Scotsman
‘The enigmatic Dury continues to be the punk rocker of the Scottish
crime scene — anarchic, rebellious and never afraid to shove his
Doc Martens where they’re not wanted’
-Daily Record
‘As washed-up private detectives go, Gus Dury is compelling — he’s
as hard as any criminal and twice as self-destructive’
-London Evening Standard
‘Ripping, gutsy prose and a witty wreck of a protagonist makes this
another exceptionally compelling, bright and even original thriller’
-Daily Mirror
‘Tony Black is my favourite British crime writer and Gus Dury the
genre’s most interesting protagonist. Like his previous books, Loss
has the power, style and street swagger that makes most of his
contemporaries a little bland by comparison’
-Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting
‘Tony Black has written two of the finest crime novels to come
out of the UK in the past twenty years and I’m willing to bet
that in twenty years, Paying for It and Gutted will be in the
top ten of any crime list. But now comes Loss … Phew-oh …
It’s like having yer ass kicked and yer heart shrived
simultaneously. What a privilege to watch a master
writer achieve everything you’d hoped for and then some’
-Ken Bruen, author of London Boulevard
‘Powerful, focused, and intense … and then it gets better.
Get your money down early on this young man — he’s
dead serious and deadly accurate’
-Andrew Vachss, author of Hard Candy
