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  dead 20-year-old lies mangled and tortured in the tartan-swathed Scots capital of Edinburgh.

  As washed-up investigator Gus Dury starts poking about he uncovers a seedy vice ring linked to Eastern European people smugglers and one of the city's political figureheads.

  It's all a very messy business, and someone will soon be Paying For It.


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  he first Gus Dury novel, PAYING FOR IT 

will be published by Random House in July.

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"I'm betting on Black." 

    - Ali Karim

Shots Mag


"This is one adrenalin-pumped novel that is as moving and compassionate as it is so stylishly written."

- Ken Bruen

author of The Guards


"This one will hit you hard. Not just a one to watch, but of all the new crime writers emerging this year, THE one to watch."

- Martyn Waites

author of White Riot



"A debut that rises from the gutter and the bottom of the glass with bravura. Crime and alcohol will never be the same again." 

- Maxim Jakubowski 



"A fine debut. Black is the new noir."

- Allan Guthrie

author of Savage Night



"Isn't it great when you discover a new author that makes you say 'wow'? Tony Black is one of those."

  - Donna Moore

author of Go to Helena Handbasket



"One killer debut."

- Ray Banks

author of Donkey Punch

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  ony's short story

Killing Time in Vegas

features in the third

Out of the Gutter.

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