When I first started reading After the Fire, I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy it particularly when the very first page launched into quite graphic and hostile descriptions of prison life which did not make very easy reading. However, I am so glad I stuck with this book as it developed into a fantastic read with many dimensions that all contributed to my enjoyment. We learn very early on that Jamie Worth, a newly qualified firearms officer, is on his way to prison. It turns out that he has been convicted of murder having shot a teenage girl whilst on duty. Already traumatised by what has happened, his world is turned upside down when it seems that the ...  Read the complete review

Jamie is a newly qualified Firearms Officer with Glasgow police when he gets a shout to an incident in a south side tenement. At the scene he finds a young inexperienced Inspector and with no tactical firearms advisors available is left to go in with just one other firearms officer. In a scene that is tense, fraught with confusion and lacking control a young girl is shot dead, by Jamie. Suddenly propelled into the media glare and with the public baying for blood, Jamie and his family face the harsh reality as the system turns against him, the colleagues he thought he could trust one by one turn their backs on him, the force he saw as his family hang him out to ...  Read the complete review