Crime
Pocketbok. Random House UK. First uppl. 2009. 346 sidor.
Nyskick.
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox has fled to Miami to escape the aftermath of a mental breakdown induced by stress and cocaine abuse, and a harrowing child-sex murder case back in Edinburgh.
But his fiancée, Trudi, is only interested in planning their wedding, and soon Lennox is cast adrift, alone in Florida. A coke-fuelled binge brings him into contact with another victim of sexual predation, ten-year-old Tianna, and Lennox flees across the state with his terrified charge, determined to protect her at any cost.
But can Lennox trust his own instincts? And can he handle Tianna, while still trying to get to grips with the Edinburgh murder?
'POWERFUL... A BRACING AND ENGAGING READ' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET WITH IRVINE WELSH, OTHER THAN GUARANTEED INTELLIGENCE.
BUT WHAT YOU GET HERE IS A TRIUMPH. A BRAVE TAKE ON PAEDOPHILE RINGS AND THE MINDS, FAST AND SLOW, BEHIND THEM... THERE ARE ECHOES OF REBUS, OF CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE, EVEN OF CARL HIAASEN...
THERE'S ONLY ONE WELSH AND YOU SHOULD BE
READING HIM AGAIN'
OBSERVER
'CRIME IS BY SOME DISTANCE WELSH'S MOST RESTRAINED AND THOUGHTFUL WORK'
THE TIMES.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780099539452
- Titel
- Crime
- Författare
- Irvine Welsh
- Förlag
- Random House UK
- Utgivningsår
- 2009
- Omfång
- 346 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 111 x 178 mm Ryggbredd 22 mm
- Vikt
- 184 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancee Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter argument sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall Florida. He meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted by two menacing strangers. After the ensuing brawl, Lennox finds himself alone with Tianna, the terrified ten-year-old daughter of one of the women, and a sheet of instructions that make him responsible for her immediate safety. Lennox takes her across the state to an exclusive marina on the Gulf of Mexico, and quickly suspects that he has stumbled into a hornet's nest: a gang of organized paedophiles, every bit as threatening as the monster that haunted him back in Edinburgh.His priority is to protect the abused girl, but can the edgy Lennox trust his own instincts? And can he negotiate her inappropriate sexuality, as well as his own mental fragility, while still trying to get to grips with the Edinburgh murder and the emotions it unleashes in him? A novel about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption, "Crime" is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness.
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