Slammer Kindle Edition

Every favour has a price. Prison collects in full.Nicholas Glass is a young prison officer already at the end of his rope. The job is grinding him down, the inmates smell weakness, and his colleagues aren’t much better. Every shift stretches longer than the last.When a group of cons reach beyond the walls to threaten his wife and daughter, Nicholas does what he thinks any husband and father would do. He agrees to a small favour. Just once. Just to make it stop.It doesn’t stop. The threats escalate. The favours multiply. Each compromise drags him deeper into a moral quicksand where there’s no clean exit, only consequences. As the pressure mounts, Nicholas begins to lose his grip on reality, and the line between survival and surrender starts to blur.SLAMMER is a dark, psychologically brutal thriller set inside a Scottish prison, where power is subtle, violence is constant, and control is always an illusion. It’s tense, intimate, and emotionally devastating, turning the prison novel inside out by locking the reader inside one man’s breaking point.Praise for Slammer:"SLAMMER succeeds in brilliantly turning the genre on its head in a book as inventive and groundbreaking as it is magnificently written."— The Scotsman"Those who enjoy the darker side of the genre are in for some serious thrills with this."— The Guardian"an absolute masterpiece, really should be at the top of everyone's "must-read" list”— EuroCrime"With SLAMMER, Guthrie creates a twisting labyrinth of a book that offers all his signature blood-racing energy, but with a deepening emotional heft that, by the end, leaves the reader breathless. His main character – his richest yet – sinks us down with him, and the results are both shocking and utterly heart-rending."— Megan Abbott, author of THE END OF EVERYTHING"He can even change your entire perception of reality with the smallest little twitch of the finger. Allan Guthrie is noir fiction's pre-eminent psychosurgeon – precise, diabolical and wildly talented."— Duane Swierczynski, author of FUN AND GAMES Read more