Hostile City

by Iain Kelly

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Book 2 of A Cal Jackson Thriller

Pub Date 28 Jan 2026 | Archive Date 9 Feb 2026

The Book Guild | B0G576NXZN

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

A young human rights lawyer, Rose Black, is dead. Her killer is on the run.

As the police fail to apprehend a dangerous murderer, tension rises and fear grips the city.
While Detective Simone Millar is on the trail of a gang destroying properties across Glasgow, far-right agitators are stirring up hatred and division ahead of the upcoming national elections.

Cal Jackson is just trying to keep his head down and stay out of trouble, but when the violence hits too close to home, he can no longer avoid confronting his past – and being dragged back into a world of trouble and pain.

As events conspire to bring them together, Cal and Millar face a stark choice if they want to catch a killer and clean up the corrupt streets of the city – it’s kill or be killed.

A young human rights lawyer, Rose Black, is dead. Her killer is on the run.

As the police fail to apprehend a dangerous murderer, tension rises and fear grips the city.
While Detective Simone...

A Note From the Publisher

Iain Kelly was born and lives in Glasgow. He works as a television editor and is married with two children. When not creating stories through sound and vision, he is writing them. His first books were the futuristic dystopian State Trilogy, completed in 2020. In 2022, The Book Guild published the popular coming-of-age mystery The Barra Boy, followed by the historical thriller All We Cannot Leave Behind and the first Cal Jackson story, Full Sun, in 2024. Hostile City is his seventh novel.

Iain Kelly was born and lives in Glasgow. He works as a television editor and is married with two children. When not creating stories through sound and vision, he is writing them. His first books...