Complicity - by Iain M Banks (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>COMPLICITY</b> n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act <br> 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. <br> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>New York Newsday</i> The sort of sophisticated whodunit that keeps you guessing and keeps you thinking...Dizzyingly clever.<br><br><i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> Literate, passionate, and well-paced, <i>Complicity</i> succeeds as both an absorbing entertainment and a chilling examination of accountability in a morally bankrupt world.<br><br><i>The New York Times Book Review</i> 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...<i>Complicity</i> is irresistibly compelling.<br><br>Donald E. Westlake <i>Complicity</i> is Banks at his absolute best. It isn't that you can't put this book down; it's that you don't dare put this book down.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Iain Banks</b> came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, <i>The Wasp Factory, </i> 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 <i>A Song of Stone</i> and <i>The Business, </i> and as Iain M. Banks, science fiction. He lives in Scotlan
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