Published in 1997 Country of the Blind is Christopher Brookmyre's second novel Following on
from the adventures in Quite Ugly One Morning, the storyline fast forwards to find Parlabane
living in domestic bliss and about to get hitched As part of the engagement package, he has
promised his soon-to-be-missus that he'll give up the more dangerous, dodgy and downright
illegal parts of his investigative journalism career

Set against the mounting dissatisfaction at the ineffective and over self-indulgent Tory
government of John Major all hell breaks loose when conservative tabloid media mogul Roland
Voss is found murdered in his country house in Scotland

Next to Voss.s body is that of his murdered wife, while their two slain bodyguards lie outside
their room The culprits seem obvious: the burglars caught fleeing the scene covered in blood
and almost immediately four men are arrested for the crime, including former burglar Thomas
McInnes, his son Paul and a very strange guy who likes to be known as Spammy

However, if it's really that obvious, why did McInnes pay a visit to his Edinburgh lawyer
a few days before the crime took place, and what are the secret contents of the envelope he
left with her?

When the lawyer, Nicole Carrow, turns up at the Police station demanding to see her client,
announcing under the glare of intense media attention claiming to have a letter that proves
her client's innocence, the last thing she expects is have an attempt made on her life within
hours.

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