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Scottish BookMuscle: Drunk on cinematic and literary influence (Paperback)
Author: Alan Trotter
£8.95
ScotlandNoir CrimeOrganised Crime
Muscle by Alan Trotter is a bold noir fiction set in a hard boiled city where crooks, grifters and hard men like Box collide with a pulp writer and a crooked private eye in a violent, surreal maze of mysteries and madness. Who this is for: readers who like gritty, imaginative crime stories and experimental noir.
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Booksellers Notes
We found Muscle bracing and uncompromising, a close, uncomfortable study of masculinity and power that forces us to confront how violence takes root early.
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In a city shaped by deals, debt and quiet brutality, Box and his partner make a living enforcing consequences. They are men of few words and firm methods, hired to collect apologies, money or blood. Violence is routine. Questions are unnecessary.
Everything shifts during a late night poker game. A pulp writer with grand ideas and a private detective with flexible morals pull them into something far stranger than a simple job. What follows resists easy definition. It might be a mystery. It might be a trail of bodies. It might be a delirious descent with no clear ending.
As boredom curdles into chaos, the city reveals itself as a place where stories distort truth and violence becomes absurdly circular.
Muscle is a sharp, unsettling noir that plays with form and expectation. Darkly funny and relentlessly inventive, it explores masculinity, meaninglessness and madness through a lens of crime fiction pushed to breaking point.
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