Double Proof

Author: Stewart, Martin

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 7 March 2024 by Birlinn General (Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 272 pages
196 x 130 x 26 | 268g

1964. A hoard of the finest Scotch whisky ever made – the legendary Dalziel Double Proof – goes missing.

2023. Albie, youngest son of the wealthy Dalziel family, vanishes. His desperate mother turns to Robbie Gould, a disgraced reporter with a reputation as a 'psychic crimebuster'.

Broke and unemployed, Gould is in no position to turn down the job. He throws himself into a twisted chain of criminals, bent cops and Japanese gangsters, but when someone fires a shotgun through his door, he realises he doesn't need supernatural powers to see how deadly the situation has become.