Complicity

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Iain M. Banks: Complicity (2002, Scribner)

305 pages

English language

Published Nov. 21, 2002 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-0-7432-0018-9
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In Scotland, a self-appointed executioner dispenses justice to fit the crime. Thus the lenient judge who let a rapist go is punished by being raped, while a man who killed is killed in turn.

6 editions

re-read after 20yrs, still good but now a timecapsule as well as a crime story

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Re-read it after finding a $1 copy in a market, first read it twenty years ago when borrowed from a friend. Not quite as gripping second time around, very much of its time and place, the drugs, the music, the landscape and the politics of the UK in the early '90s. I think I had an inkling of whodunnit far earlier during my first reading than on my second, memory failed in the intervening years!

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Subjects

  • Journalists -- Scotland -- Fiction
  • Serial murders -- Scotland -- Fiction