The Cull by Mark Frankland

by Mark Frankland

‘Everyone who has lost a child to heroin will want to be Jack Sinclair. Tragic, thrilling, captivating.’ Simon Houston, Daily Record “Mark lifts the lid on Drug Town” Sunday PostWill Sinclair is dead. It seems as if he will be just another statistic. Another young man dead before he reaches twenty. Another Scottish junkie unlucky enough to shoot-up a bad bag of heroin. A few column-inches in the local paper. Ten seconds on the radio news. And then he will be added to the long, long list. Just another dead junkie.But this time it is different. It is different because Jack Sinclair will not accept his son’s loss with resigned grief. He refuses to forgive and forget. He was once Major Jack Sinclair of the Scots Guards. In three tours of Northern Ireland he learned all about fighting an unseen enemy. Then there were rules. Regulations. Restrictions. Red tape. His war against the drugs gangs who killed his son will be very different. This time the gloves are off. This time he has a free rein.As Jack Sinclair lights his small fire, the story sweeps from the empty wilderness of the Galloway Forest to the war-torn streets of West Belfast, from the mean council estates of West Scotland to the Cabinet Room of 10 Downing Street.And the fire becomes an inferno.“Like ‘Trainspotting’ before it, ‘The Cull’ takes the reader into the darkest corners of the Scottish drug world. Compelling. Harrowing. Always gripping. Nothing will stop you turning the pages.’

Paperback

First published November 15, 2001

About the author

If I had a business card, I guess it would say something like
'Author and drugs worker'. I have written 16 novels over the last decade and the great British public has shelled out for 100,000 of them. For which, thanks. My books play really big in the Scottish Prison Service. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Search me! Otherwise, I'm just yet another middle aged Brit morphing into an ever angrier man at the world we live in.

Reviews

[Michelle Docherty · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book is a good read and I enjoyed it. Even gripping at times.

But the amount of typos, and the grammar mistakes etc made this uncomfortable to read. If it wasn't a good story that I wanted to continue I would have just binned the book.

[Ken Howard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting little read

Not a bad read , it got my interest due to the topic i.e.: drugs,The Irish troubles and gives you something to think about.

[Robert McColm · Rating 4 out of 5]

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