Complicity (Paperback)

from AndrewBlackman

I was attracted by the political element of the story, and also the fact that parts of it are written in second person, an interesting idea that I am exploring at the moment in my own writing. Unfortunately I found that the second-person passages are short, and the political element is underplaye...

from Eyejaybee

It would be difficult to characterise this as anything other than a particularly unpleasant book, revolving around graphic descriptions of especially brutal murders interspersed with detailed accounts of drug-driven sadomasochistic sex. However, as all of this is packaged with Banks's characteris...

from iftyzaidi

Another winner. Takes a while to get going and some of the narrative describing the protagonist's doings in the early part of the book are lackluster but as the stately wheels of the plot start turning it gets better and better, with some truly gripping revelations towards the end. Good stuff!

from EadieB

Book Description 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...

from PilgrimJess

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others This book rev...