Book description
Glasgow, 1989. James Addison, aka Addie, has been a very busy man.
Wanted for every type of crime for over a decade, there is only one
hitch - he has never been seen, let alone caught. So, who or what is
Addie? Does he even exist?
When a small-time moneylender pimp is shot down on a Glasgow street,
it seems to be just another gangland murder. But not for Andy Grimes,
overseer of much of the city's prostitution, drug dealing and
protection rackets - and the dead man's brother. When word leaks out
that Addie is the killer, Grimes calls in his police allies and
musters his troops. On the case is DCI Alex Birse, and old-time cop,
as crooked as he is vicious. He has been after Addie for years and
never got close.
As the streets of Glasgow heave with police and gangsters, over in
Berlin the Wall is coming down. At this time of great change,
opportunity and uncertainty, the two cities are linked by loot -
Bearer Bonds to be precise. Back in Glasgow, while pulling a scam on
an old Jewish couple, one of Grimes' men, Angie the Gopher, finds a
biscuit tin full of Bearer Bonds issued in Germany before the Second
World War. Angie smells money - the bonds could be worth millions -
and he scuttles back to tell his boss. Now the chase is on.
Who gets the bonds? How much are they worth? Who perishes along the
way? For the answers you'll have to rely on Addie. But can they catch
him? The last line will reveal all . . . maybe.
For 20 years, Paul Ferris was at the centre of crime in Scotland's
most violent city. He knows street life intimately and is the co-author
and subject of the hugely successful
The Ferris Conspiracy
. Reg McKay worked the same streets on the other side of the fence - as
social worker. He is now an investigative journalist and the author of
None So Pretty: The Sexing of Rebecca Pine
and
Indictment
with T C Campbell.
