Country of the Blind - Softcover

Brookmyre, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802139191 ISBN 13: 9780802139191

Publisher: Grove Press, 2002

Synopsis

British critics have compared Christopher Brookmyre's writing to the "sassy, nasty, fast style of the Americans Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen" (The Guardian) and called his work "perpetually in-your-face ... irreverent and stylish" (The Times). Now he returns with another cracked gem of a comic thriller: Country of the Blind. This time, hard-bitten investigative journalist Jack Parlabane -- hero of Brookmyre's award-winning novel Quite Ugly One Morning-finds himself up to his eyeballs in murder, mayhem, and political intrigue when conservative tabloid media mogul Roland Voss is discovered at his country estate with his throat slit and his wife and bodyguards killed. The police have arrested four men fleeing the scene, but for Parlabane it all doesn't add up and he suspects the fix is in ... unless he can get to the bottom of things before everybody else. Packed with Brookmyre's distinctive collection of wacked-out characters and fueled by his trademark hell-for-leather pacing, Country of the Blind is a tart "tartan noir" that will leave you breathless with suspense -- if you're not asphyxiated by convulsions of laughter first. "A high-octane political thriller doused in stinging satire." -- The Sunday Times (London)

About this title

Review:

Violent, funny, Scottish...a publisher's dream. (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Irvine Welsh out of Iain Rankin. (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY)

Tough, in your face...studded with a lot of black humour. (IRISH TIMES)

Tartan Noir (THE INDEPENDENT)

Book Description:

Another fast talking, fast action thriller by the author of QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING, winner of the 1996 Critics' First Blood Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0802139191
• ISBN 13: 9780802139191
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416