Jack Laidlaw · Book 3
Strange Loyalties
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 321
- ISBN-13
- 9780340533789
- Type
- novel
About this book
Strange Loyalties is the third entry in William McIlvanney's Jack Laidlaw series, published in 1991 at 321 pages. It follows The Papers of Tony Veitch and precedes The Dark Remains, the series' final and most unusual volume.
Its place in Jack Laidlaw
Strange Loyalties is book 3 in the Jack Laidlaw series. It follows The Papers of Tony Veitch. It is followed by The Dark Remains. See the full Jack Laidlaw reading order.
Jack Laidlaw is a Glasgow detective who reads Camus and Kierkegaard between interrogations, drinks in the city's roughest pubs to stay fluent in its underworld, and treats every case as a moral argument he's obliged to have with himself as much as with the criminals he's chasing. William McIlvanney introduced him in Laidlaw (1977), a novel now widely credited as the founding text of Tartan Noir -- the harder, more socially and psychologically serious strain of Scottish crime writing that later produced Ian…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780340533789