Read by Jonathan Hackett

An engrossing thriller in which all the murder victims apparently deserve, if not their
cruel fates, at least a reckoning, leaving the hero (and the reader) with a guilty sense of
admiration and appreciation for the clever serial killer. Scottish novelist Banks takes as his
protagonist Edinburgh journalist Cameron Colley, who smokes too much, drinks too much, plays
seriously with hard drugs, and is addicted to computer games. A mysterious informant is feeding
him just enough information to get him running about the countryside trying to track down a major
story that shimmers enticingly just beyond his grasp. The stakes are raised when Colley, is
implicated in a series of carefully planned assaults, most of them deadly and each with a message
to send. Irresponsible businessmen, a pornographer, an incompetent doctor, a judge whose leniency
set a convicted rapist free to strike again - vengeance is wreaked upon them and others like them,
one by one, in a series of vignettes intercut with Colley's story. Both the journalist and the
chief investigator on the case become convinced that the killer is someone close to Colley, who
can determine who it is if he puts his mind to it.

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