Black and Blue
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- 9,99 €
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Publisher Description
"Johnny Bible", un apodo surgido de la prensa sensacionalista, es la nueva pesadilla que merodea por los más oscuros callejones de Glasgow. Su nombre rememora al más brutal asesino que la ciudad recuerda, John Bible, que cometió los más horrendos crímenes treinta años atrás. Ahora, según todos los indicios, un nuevo monstruo pretende hacerse con la macabra fama que el Bible original consiguió sin haber sido jamás encarcelado.
El inspector de policía John Rebus baraja cuatro casos de asesinato que parecen conducir a este anónimo criminal, pero deberá ser cauteloso, ya que la detención del sucesor de Bible no será su mayor desafío. Acechado por Asuntos Internos y por los medios de comunicación, Rebus no solo deberá atrapar al depravado asesino, sino que necesitará hacerlo de la forma más limpia posible para salvar su desprestigiada reputación.
Ganadora del prestigioso Gold Dagger Award, Black and Blue (Serie John Rebus, 8) se ha convertido en una de las novelas más celebradas de Ian Rankin, el nuevo maestro de la novela policíaca británica.
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Rankin's Inspector John Rebus (Mortal Causes; Let It Bleed) is something of an outlaw cop, a hard-drinking, rock-and-roll-loving loner who tends to make his superiors see red. At the outset of his latest outing, he has been posted to one of Edinburgh's toughest precincts, where he is following the trail of Johnny Bible, a serial killer who seems to have taken over from Bible John, a real-life serial killer who terrorized Glasgow in the late 1960s. Rebus is also being investigated for allegedly colluding with a former colleague in planting evidence on a suspect who committed suicide. Although the last thing Rebus needs is a new case, he gets one when a North Sea oil rig worker on shore leave is pushed, or scared, out of a second-story window and onto iron railings below. This case leads Rebus to some crooked cops in Aberdeen, home base of the oilworkers; a Glasgow gangster and his bumbling son; and a pair of devious American club owners. The case also begins to tie in with Johnny Bible. Rankin's book is long and complex but rich in character and incident as Rebus dodges his investigators, follows his hunches into some violent confrontations, and explores the strange mid-ocean world of North Sea oil. Rankin's only misstep is introducing Bible John as a character seeking to catch and kill Johnny Bible: these passages lack the brooding authenticity that marks the rest of the book. Still, as Rankin notes in a fascinating afterword, nearly 30 years after his killing spree, Bible John remains at large.
