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Complicity: No Series

Autor Iain Banks
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 oct 2002
COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act
Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO -- he commits brutal murders on behalf of the underdog. As the two stories begin to merge, Cameron finds himself inextricably and inexplicably implicated by the killer.
When the arms dealer whom Cameron plans to expose is found literally "disarmed" before Cameron can even put pen to paper and the brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold out at the expense of his workers finds himself permanently unemployable, the police become convinced of Cameron's guilt, as do half his friends and colleagues, forcing Cameron to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780743200189
ISBN-10: 0743200187
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: S&S/Saga Press
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Notă biografică

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, recently selected in a British poll as one of the top one hundred novels of the century. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim with his other works of fiction, including the international bestsellers A Song of Stone and The Business, and as Iain M. Banks, science fiction. He lives in Scotland.

Descriere

Local journalist Cameron Colley sticks up for the underdog, often exposing prominent people who take advantage of the less fortunate. The trouble is that a twisted serial killer seems to have the same motives, committing murder on behalf of the same kind of underdogs.

Cuprins

Contents

1 Independent Deterrent

2 Chill Filter

3 Despot

4 Injection

5 Naked Flame

6 Exocet Deck

7 Lux Europae

8 Friendly Fire

9 Growth

10 Carse of Speld

11 Slab

12 Basra Road

13 Sleep When I'm Dead

Recenzii

Complicity n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act.
A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy of tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - in fact, just a regular dayat the office for free-wheeling, substance-abusing Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper.
The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago - only to find that the police are checking out a series of bizarre deaths that are happening right now. And Cameron just might know more about it than he'd care to admit . . .
'A remarkable novel . . . superbly crafted, funny and intelligent' Financial Times
'A stylishly executed and well-produced study of fear, loathing and victimisation which moves towards doom in measured steps' Observer

Ingenious, daring and brilliant
Fast moving ... tightly plotted
A stylishly executed and well produced study in fear, loathing and victimisation which moves towards doom in measured steps
Compelling and sinister . . . a very good thriller
A remarkable novel . . . superbly crafted, funny and intelligent
From the brilliant opening . . . that lands the reader smack in the middle of the first of a series of cold-blooded murders to the final confrontation on a weather-beaten wild island . . . Complicity is irresistibly compelling
Literate, passionate and well-paced, Complicity succeeds as both an absorbing entertainment and a chilling examination of accountability in a morally bankrupt world
An ingeniously constructed tale, done with customary ease, wit and panache. Banks may be a classic story-spinner, purveyor of the proverbial Good Read: but in among all the contrasts, the genre-hopping and the fun, there's a small, serious common purpose to his work
Brutal in the nightmarishness of its gruesome murders and sexual explicitness but never less than a no-holds-barred blitz of a thriller
An excellent nervy book, both cool and terrifying at its dark centre where the perfect logic of the protagonist is devoid of pity. Banks's muscular style and gruesome imagination make this a fast-moving thriller not to be missed
A cocktail of sex, skulduggery and hi-tech mystery, set most convincingly in a Caledonian newsroom. I shall now read everything Banks has written