| Category: | Books |
| Genre: | Mystery & Thrillers |
| Author: | Christopher Brookmyre |
A
seasoned investigative journalist Jack Parlabane, teamed up with a
rookie lawyer, Nicole Carrow, when he found out one of the dead pawns in
a power game was his friend. It started as a simple burglary in a
Scottish country mansion. Unfortunately, the owner together with his
wife and two bodyguards turned up dead as proverbial doornails, and the
burglars fell into the slot as the prime suspects. The case landed on
Nicole’s lap as she held the key to their innocence. The plot brewed
from a power wangle between the rich and powerful millionaire who
thought he owned the politicians while the politicians thought they were
the chosen ones who decided who called the shots. So, burglars who
were main fall guys, together with lawyers, reporters, lawmen and hit
men were laid on the high profile chessboard and the game was played
out, leaving a good number of dead bodies in the Scottish landscape.
Christopher
Brookmyre writes with realism which includes lots of real life
profanities and Scottish country mispronunciations and dialectical
quirks thrown in. You’ll have to figure out the meaning of some of
those jargons to make sense of the plot. There are also familiar
political phrases such as “spin-doctoring” and the likes being used.
What irks me about the writing style are the meandering descriptions of
unnecessary details outlining the thinking processes of some of the
characters.
Overall, this is a fairly good tale of political intrigues which seems all too familiar in this day and age.
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