Description
Albert Blaney, aka the Surgeon, is Scotland's most notorious gangster, boasting a treacherous past and considering a dubious future. Having spilled his life story onto the pages of a bestselling memoir, he is suddenly summoned back to Glasgow for the funeral of his mother, uncertain of whom he has angered and who to look out for, unsure how violent his homecoming 'welcome' will be. . .
As his journey sparks off a host of extraordinary memories, Albert recalls how the innocent boy became the hardened criminal, how his parents fragile relationship fuelled those first dangerous acts of indifference and how, through what he views as his one true talent, he became deeply and irrevocably involved with Glasgow's sinister underworld.
