THE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER: MALCOLM MACKAY

This is the first of Malcolm Mackay's THE GLASGOW TRILOGY.  It follows a young Scotsman, Calum Mac Lean, a loner who makes his living as an independent hit man.  This time he's asked by the Peter Jamieson organisation, a rising crime group, to do their dirty work, getting rid of a small time dope dealer named Lewis Winter who, at the behest of another rising drug dealer, Shug Francis, is moving in on the Jamieson's territory.  Most of the book follows the thinking, the mind of Calum as he thinks through the hit, and its aftermath.  We also meet Lewis Smith, the victim,  his floozy of a girlfriend, Zara Cope and Detective Michael Fisher, who is determined to make some arrests. The fun of this is finding out what a hit man thinks, as well as the girlfriend of a dead drug dealer, and the detective who is charged with finding the truth.  I liked it enough to read the next book in the trilogy, HOW A GUNMAN SAYS GOODBYE,