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In Hide and Seek Detective Inspector John Rebus is confronted with the top and bottom of Edinburgh society. It turns out getting my hands on the first Rebus book came about through me getting my hands on the first nine plus an unrelated Ian Rankin book through a boxset – needless to say, I was set and more than willing to dive in. I didn’t love the first book in Ian Rankin’s Rebus series, but was encouraged by friends to persist (they say gets better). Seeing where our perspectives differ and in the main, where they meet, enriches our interpretations of the stories we read. I’m loving your book reviews though, and I’m slowly getting to a point where I think I’ll soon have time to read.
After reading the first book in the series, Knots and Crosses, I felt the ending was open ended and that I needed to read this second book. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind. Unlike Neeson’s character, Inspector John Rebus stops short of actually doing something worthwhile, such as alerting the media or exposing the guilty. But when his case clashes head-on with the Johnny Bible killings, he finds himself in the glare of a fearful media, whilst under the scrutiny of an internal enquiry.He is corrupt, self-righteous, hypocritical, misogynistic, violent, egomaniacal, bullying, and delusional. A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. In a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. Young pretender Darryl Christie may have staked his claim on the city's underworld - but has criminal mastermind and Rebus' long-time adversary, Big Ger Cafferty, really settled down to a quiet retirement?
Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. I envisage Rebus as a pit bull - he’s not pretty, he’s not sociable, but he’s very tenacious and won’t let go of his quarry. Rankin's attentive annotations touch on the jacket design, the writing of the book 'in my little flat in Tottenham, while I worked as a hi-fi journalist', the book's echoes of Jekyll and Hyde ('pretty much the overarching theme of the early Rebus novels .Rebus is able to arrest Hyde's owner and several high-profile members, but to his outrage and disgust all the prisoners die suspicious deaths: the powers-that-be are covering it up to prevent scandal. Rebus is an interesting guy, not always likable, often grouchy and impossible to deal with (the fact that he’s able to get beautiful women is still a bit iffy and too much male fantasy territory, but at least he can keep his hands to himself). This copy is signed by the author and features his signature "tic-tac-toe" drawing on the title page. Rebus is a character who never lets the wool be pulled over his eyes - always with an eye on the endgame.
Other cancelled products: If you want to cancel products that are not damaged or incorrectly supplied, then you must inform us of this within seven working days following the date of receipt in accordance with the Distance Selling Regulations or otherwise as soon as possible.Junkies, addicts and pushers; gay and straight prostitution; dog fighting; illegal high stakes gaming and brothels; corruption in the police force, on the bench and at the bar; alcoholics and drunkards - they all make their way onto the stage of Hide and Seek in a novel that seems determined to portray Scotland as a bleak and unrelentingly dreary den of sin and iniquity. It follows the apparent accidental overdose of Ronnie an addict in a squat with possible Satanic links. The compromising photographs he picks up along the way -- and isn't sure what to do with -- are also a nice touch.
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Some side plots in the story involve illegal dog fights, a gay character, and Rebus's ex-lover - Gillian Templer - who has a new radio DJ boyfriend. I enjoyed this one more as we already knew him as a character, his history was in place, and we knew what to expect from him. We mainly use Royal Mail Tracked 48 Service for goods which weight less then 2kg, all other goods will be delivered by a Courier.
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