Gunner

His War Isn't Over . . . It's Closer to Home

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Pub Date 17 Jul 2025 | Archive Date 17 Jul 2025

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A brand new crime series from the award-winning author of the Harry McCoy books

'Great storytelling . . . 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

March 1941. Joseph Gunner is back on the streets of Glasgow after being wounded on the front lines in France.

Keeping the pain in his leg at bay with the help of morphine, Gunner, a former detective, is hoping to keep his head down as the Luftwaffe begins bombing Glasgow.

But when he runs into his old boss Drummond, he is persuaded to help examine a body found in the wreckage. When the body turns out to be that of a German, mutilated to disguise his identity, Gunner reluctantly agrees to investigate.

As Gunner begins to hunt for the truth he runs into old flames and bitter enemies, before finding himself embroiled in a high-level conspiracy that reaches far beyond his hometown of Glasgow.

Partly inspired by the true story of Rudolph Hess's secret mission to broker appeasement with Britain during the Second World War, Gunner is an atmospheric and addictive new thriller from one of Britain's best-loved writers.

A brand new crime series from the award-winning author of the Harry McCoy books

'Great storytelling . . . I loved it' Peter James, #1 bestselling author of the Roy Grace series

'Great stuff . . . a...


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ISBN 9781399819664
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PAGES 288

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The Harry McCoy series by Alan Parks is an outstanding body of work so I was intrigued to read the first in what I hope will be a long lived series featuring Gunner, newly returned to his native Glasgow after being invalided out of the army owing to his injuries incurred at Dunkirk.

He is inveigled back into a police investigation by his shady former boss and it all kicks off from there with nothing and nobody being quite what they seem.

What is fascinating is the depiction of Glasgow in the 1940s and the descriptions of the people and places. The action is nonstop with lots of twists and turns linked to what was for me a fairly preposterous link to Rudolf Hess.

An excellent start which is highly recommended..

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