Forty. Bored. Drifting.

Greg McManus works the rigs and lives in a half-life—half offshore, half asleep, fully invisible. A father, a husband, a man who’s done everything right and still ended up nowhere. In the slums of post-independence Scotland, where human traffickers livestream their crimes and gangsters sell charlie and churros, Greg floats through a crumbling country ruled by psychopathic influencers, neoliberal tyrants, and old gangland ghosts wearing new designer shoes.

But Greg has a secret. A bloodline. A legacy. A da.Gentleman Jim McManus—SAS ghost, legend, long buried. Dead before Greg ever opened his eyes, but the man’s violence lives in him like something ancestral—wired deep, dormant, waiting. Cold resolve. Appetite. A nose for endings.

What emerges is crude, feral—a blunt instrument aching to be sharpened. And sharpen he does, one quiet stroke at a time, like a blade unveiling what it was always made to be.When the city starts to burn—when the old crime families collapse and Junior MacNamara rises from the ashes with his army of mercenaries and immigrants—Greg hears the call. Not to justice. Not to revenge. But to purpose.

He stalks. He learns. He prepares. Because he’s not just a man anymore. He’s a weapon. A ghost with a sniper’s eye and a hunter’s patience.

An Average Glasgow Hitman is a brutal, darkly comic odyssey through a city devouring its morals and a man who finally grows teeth. A story about family, masculine transformation, and what happens when a passive man finally decides to kill the version of himself that let it all happen.The debut novel by Ray Hargens Hire.

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Violence reminds men what they are.