Los papeles de Tony Veitch

The Papers of Tony Veitch, the second installment in the renowned Glasgow trilogy that William McIlvanney began in the late 1970s, is a reunion with Inspector Jack Laidlaw, a tormented lone wolf who, behind his apparent toughness, hides great humanity and keen intelligence. Eck Adamson, an alcoholic homeless man, calls the inspector on his deathbed and Laidlaw sees in Eck's cryptic last message a clue to solving the murder of an underworld ruffian and clarifying the disappearance of Toni Veitch, a highly idealistic student. . And Laidlaw, with his stubborn integrity, pursues a trail of corruption that corrodes society from the highest echelons to the lowest echelons.