It is an investigation that will find him not just trying to solve a crime but fighting for his life.

Rebus’s profligate drinking, and woeful attempts to limit his smoking habit are amusing at first, but become tedious. Interesting that this book, about a detective who uncovers a hidden underbelly beneath his hometown of Endinburgh, Scotland in which super-wealthy assholes do horrible things to homeless young men and women and get away with it because nobody has the balls to actually do anything about it was only about 18 years away from a movie (“Taken”) in which a father uncovers a secret underbelly of super-wealthy assholes who kidnap young women and do horrible things with them. We know more about cancer today (not everything, of course, mainly because while our scientific knowledge may seem pretty advanced, the truth is that we are still less than a hundred years away from people thinking women and black people were intellectually inferior to white males. An average story for mystery, suspense and thrills - nowhere near as much a page turner as the first book in the series was, so a mere 5 out of 12, Two Star read! Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services.and if truth be told, I read about a third of the book a few months ago and it just didn’t do anything for me. Then the wild ride begins through dog fighting, gambling, sex clubs, rent boys and a few more things of which I lost track.

esmemoria on “What the stories never said: at the end of the day, if a man wants to kill you, he kills you.Now the question is, do I carry straight on with the next Rebus book or do I read something else from the ever-growing pile by my bed? These are the dregs, a squalid society of addicts and derelicts, people long since disconnected from a society that is preoccupied with the new businesses and the new homes bringing prosperity to a city concentrating on advertising its quality of life. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Seeing where our perspectives differ and in the main, where they meet, enriches our interpretations of the stories we read. His personal life is a bit of a mystery and he dislikes interacting with other policemen unless he feels an absolute need, And although this book is listed as a police procedural, I'm not sure that's entirely accurate.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.Rebus is able to arrest Hyde's owner and several high-profile members, but to his disgust all die suspicious deaths while imprisoned: the powers-that-be are covering it up to prevent scandal. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind . Rankin's attentive annotations touch on the jacket design, the writing of the book 'in my little flat in Tottenham, while I worked as a hi-fi journalist', the book's echoes of Jekyll and Hyde ('pretty much the overarching theme of the early Rebus novels . Like most fictional detectives he is a loner and seems to have problem in maintaining relationships.