Doors Open
From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES
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4.2 • 26 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
'You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough' RED
FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN
THEY SAY THE DEVIL MAKES WORK FOR IDLE HANDS...
Three friends visit an art auction each in search of something. Self-made mogul Mike Mackenzie completed the rat race, Allan Cruikshank is bored of his banking job, while art professor Robert Gissing is disgusted that so many paintings stay hidden in boardrooms.
One chance encounter is all it takes to light a spark in each: to plot the perfect crime.
The target? The National Gallery of Scotland. The prize? Some of the most valuable artworks around. The risk? None - because the world will never know that a crime was ever committed.
But with such high stakes at play, the heist will descend into second guesses and double crosses, with a deadly sting in the tail...
'Perhaps Rankin's most entertaining book yet' JOHN CONNOLLY
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Scottish author Rankin's intricately plotted heist thriller, software millionaire Mike Mackenzie, high-end banker Allan Cruikshank, and college art professor Robert Gissing devise a plan to "liberate" forgotten works of art from a warehouse storing the overflow from Edinburgh's museum collections. The trio commissions an art student nursing an antiestablishment grudge to paint fakes to swap for the originals, and Mackenzie's chance meeting with schoolmate Charlie "Chib" Calloway, now one of the city's most notorious gangsters, allows the group access to muscle and weapons. But cracks soon appear in the plan, with an inquisitive detective inspector, who's been on Calloway's trail for months, getting too close for comfort. Using the smalltown feel of Edinburgh to advantage, Rankin (Exit Music) gives his caper novel a claustrophobic edge while injecting enough twists, turns, and triple crosses that even the most astute reader will be surprised at the outcome.
