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The Impossible Dead (Paperback)
Price
£7.99
Synopsis
Malcolm Fox returns in the stunning second novel in Ian Rankin's new series...
Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist.
A trail of revelations leads Fox back to 1985, a year of desperate unrest when letter-bombs and poisonous spores were sent to government offices, and kidnappings and murders were plotted. But while the body count rises the clock starts ticking, and a dramatic turn of events sees Fox in mortal danger.
Reviews
Fox remains a worthy successor to Rebus, retaining his outsider status and incorruptibility but operating in a much more modern context
SUNDAY TIMES
Rankin delivers, without the help of Rebus, an excellent cop novel full of action, good dialogue, well-crafted characters and an authentic backdrop
THE TIMES
Criminally good
WOMAN & HOME
This is Rankin, so it's only to be expected that the plotting should be tight, the dialogue quick-fire, the crimes disturbingly believable, taking place as they do in a world that is so thoroughly and obviously our own, today
OBSERVER
A substantial and satisfying novel with the skilfully orchestrated narrative that Rankin does so well
SPECTATOR
Product Details
- 432 pages
- 198mm x 129mm x 27mm
- ISBN-13 Number: 9781409136293
- Publication Date: May 2012
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