Gordon Ferris - DB01 The Hanging Shed

Glasgow 1946. The last time Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a proud
young man in a paratrooper's uniform. Now, the war is over but victory's wine
has soured and Brodie's back in Scotland to try and save childhood friend Shug
Donovan from the gallows. Everyone thought Donovan was dead, shot down in the
war. Perhaps it would have been kinder if he had been killed. The man who
returns from the war is unrecognisable: mutilated, horribly burned. Donovan
keeps his own company, only venturing out for heroin to deaden the pain of his
wounds. When a local boy is found raped and murdered, there is only one suspect.
Donovan claims he's innocent but a mountain of evidence says otherwise. Despite
the hideousness of the crime, ex-policeman Brodie feels compelled to try and
help his one time friend. Working with advocate Samantha Campbell, Brodie trawls
the mean streets of the Gorbals and the green hills of western Scotland in
their search for the truth. What they find is an unholy alliance of troublesome
priests, corrupt coppers and Glasgow's deadliest razor gang, happy to slaughter
to protect their dark and dirty secrets. As time runs out for the condemned man,
the murder tally of innocents starts to climb. When Sam Campbell disappears,
it's the last straw for Brodie, and he reverts to his wartime role as a trained
killer. It's them or him...