Little, Brown and Company
Featuring: Siobhan Clarke; David Minton; Malcolm
ISBN: 0316342513 EAN: 9780316342513 Kindle: B00X47ZNO4 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Lord Minton, a retired Crown prosecutor was murdered. No
weapon was found, but a death threat was found in his
wallet. Not long after, a crime boss, "Big Ger" Cafferty is
shot at; he's uninjured, but he also had received an
intimidating note. Then a mobster from a rival family is
killed; what could be the link between gangsters and a man
above reproach. Police Scotland has formed a special
investigating team, because of the murder of a peer or the
realm, and the assembled officers don't precisely see eye
to
eye on how to proceed. Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke
and her friend Malcolm Fox are on the team, and as no one
knows Cafferty better than retired Inspector John Rebus,
they ask for his help. Rebus, retired only for one month,
is
bored to tears, and as always he is bound to ruffle more
than a few feathers.
EVEN DOGS IN THE WILD reunites beloved characters from Ian
Rankin's books as we follow this painstaking enquiry, where
the lines between honourable and criminal have never been
more blurry. As more details surface, the more mystifying
the case appears, and not only for the reader! Power plays
abound between the various players, on both sides; some
officers of the law are not that sympathetic, some
gangsters
are somewhat endearing. The enquiry becomes a muddle that
leads nowhere; it progresses at a snail's pace, the process
is slow and confusing, which makes it quite absorbing,
because the reader doesn't know more than the
characters. A few humorous passages lighten the tone of the
book, especially Rebus' repartees and regarding the stray
dog. As expected in an Ian Rankin novel, EVEN DOGS IN THE
WILD concludes in rather stunning fashion, and I'm sure not
many readers will have guessed how the story will end until
the last pages. A great read from one of the masters of
suspense!
Rebus comes out of retirement...to save his nemesis.
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is feeling the heat.
She's investigating the death of a senior government
prosecutor, David Minton, who has friends in high places.
When one of their own is killed, the powers that be want
answers fast. But Clarke is puzzled: if Minton died in a
robbery as everyone thinks, why is nothing missing from his
home? The answer may lie not in what was taken, but in what
was left behind at the scene--an ominous note.
Malcolm Fox is feeling useless. Shunned by his colleagues
because of his past in the Complaints bureau, he's been
reassigned to a grunt detail, helping a surveillance
team--one that trusts him even less than his own boss
does--track a notorious Glasgow crime family. Helping
Clarke
with the Minton case is the only thing that makes Fox feel
like a real cop.
Newly minted civilian John Rebus is feeling restless. Being
a cop is in his blood and he's failing miserably at
retirement. So when Clarke and Fox ask for his help, Rebus
doesn't need long to consider his options. But before he
can
get his bearings, a call comes from Rebus's old
nemesis--"Big Ger" Cafferty. Someone just fired a bullet
through his front window--and sent him a note identical to
Minton's. The normally unflappable old gangster is on edge,
but for the life of him Cafferty can't figure out who he's
wronged. And the only man he trusts with his life is Rebus.
As the cases collide, it's up to Clarke, Fox, and Rebus to
connect the dots and save their unlikely ally Cafferty,
whose past harbors a shocking secret that implicates
Minton's friends in an unspeakable crime. Even Dogs in the
Wild reunites crime fiction legend Ian Rankin's greatest
characters in an explosive story exploring the darkest
corners of our desires.
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