Crime
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- 7,99 €
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- 7,99 €
Publisher Description
L’inspecteur Ray Lennox a quitté Édimbourg pour Miami après une dépression due à l’abus de stress et de cocaïne et à une sale affaire d’infanticides sexuels. Mais sa fiancée ne songe qu’à préparer leur mariage et il se retrouve seul et désœuvré en Floride. Quand un toxico lui présente une fillette de dix ans victime de prédation sexuelle, Lennox décide de la protéger, à tout prix…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Welsh's most coherent and satisfying novel in a decade showcases the Scottish author's inimitable combination of dark realism, satire and psychological insight. Having been placed on leave after suffering an emotional meltdown, Edinburgh detective Ray Lennox, introduced in Filth (1998), and Trudi, his fianc e, fly to Miami for a few days to relax and plan their wedding, but from the start the trip is a nightmare. Lennox gobbles antidepressants and begins drinking again in a desperate frenzy, but things really tilt out of control when he parties with some locals, who reacquaint him with an old obsession, cocaine. One of his new "friends" has a 10-year-old daughter, who's been targeted by an organized ring of pedophiles. Can Lennox save the girl and redeem himself? The main action alternates with chapters set in Scotland, written from a claustrophobic second-person point-of-view. Welsh offers no easy answers in this complicated, unsettling and at times beautiful novel.
