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Monday, October 13, 2003

Mortal Causes


Mortal Causes, by Ian Rankin. A John Rebus mystery.

This one, I kept seeing the BBC dramatisation in my head while reading, but still enjoyed it very much. Rebus is seconded to work on a gunrunning/terrorism investigation team, after a boy with possible nationalist group involvement is found dead. He enjoys the freedom of being 'out of the office' from two different places at once, but that's about the all the enjoyment this case affords him, as not only is there possible terrorist involvement and he has to go to Belfast, but the murdured boy is the son of a high-level, and very nasty, gangster whom Rebus put away.

A good read, indeed.