- Hardcover: 496 pages
- Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C; Large Print edition edition (1 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0754018466
- ISBN-13: 978-0754018469
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 15 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 136,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Rankin's ability to create a credible character, delivering convincing dialogue to complement sinister and hard-hitting plots set against vividly detailed atmosphere, is simply awesome' - Time Out
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'Unmissable Rankin, gripping, involving and read in style by James Frain.' CHOICE 'is the best of them and is deftly read by James Frain' THE IRISH TIMES
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's great to know that Rankin's talents aren't just restricted to writing about Rebus.
The Jack Harvey books are a completely different style, and equally enjoyable. His writing is first class, sometimes stopping me in my tracks with a brilliant sentence.
His Jack Harvey novels are very good reads, maybe not qutie as good as Rebus, but still very enjoyable. Blood Hunt is probably the best one, although i have enjoyed all three very much.
It was very interesting to learn more about Gordon Reeve (who some readers might remember as being the killer from Knots and Crosses). However, if you are to read this, you must forget the events of Knots and Crosses, and with this book they have been completely forgotten, and Rankin instead builds upon Reeve's character. It builds a nice parrallell universe of "what if". What if Knots and Crosses had never happened? How would Gordon Reeve be?
Anyway, all in all a very good book. One of Rankin's best.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The basic plot of the book is that an ex-SAS soldier goes to America to pay respects to his brother, who supposedly committed suicide. Only, all is not what it seems. With large, corporate companies, police officers and PI agencies on his tail, the main character, Gordon Reeve, is in a race against time to find out what really happened to his brother, because it soon becomes clear that suicide was not the cause of his brother's death.
A brilliant story, intracately woven with twists and turns, leaving you on the edge of seat. Action & Mystery - Ian Rankin's best book yet.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Fast paced, exciting - a book you just can't put down once you start it.
My only slight critisiscm is that some of the military technicalities aren't consistent with factual based military books I've read, nonetheless definately recommended.
My only slight critisiscm is that some of the military technicalities aren't consistent with factual based military books I've read, nonetheless definately recommended.
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Ian Rankin!
Blood Hunt by Ian Rankin...loved it, a change from Rebus. I have it on my Kindle....Kindles are so much easier to dust than my old bookshelves :=)
Published 28 days ago by Ann Teak
Rankin never disappoints
For those familiar with Rankin, this is his usual well thought out plots, slightly disappointed that the language used is a bit less 'Scots' than his Rebus series and his new... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. L. Galluzzo
Not vintage Rankin
I generally enjoy Rankin - Rebus or otherwise, but I found this very disappointing stuff - lots of drunkenness and violence and running about but the plot is extremely absurd (save... Read more
Published 9 months ago by W. J. Stewart
JUST AS GOOD THE SECOND TIME AROUND
It's rare that I read a book twice. Normally, I put it down as soon as I realise, but in this case I just kept going, and enjoyed it for a second time. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Barry McCanna
Odd mistakes mar an excellent read
As other reviewers, I enjoyed the pace and thrill of this story. It was marred for me by strange mistakes. Read more
Published on 7 April 2010 by Jessica Black
Seems like an old manuscript
This book, while quite entertaining, seems to be an old manuscript pulled from the back of a drawer. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2008 by expatina
A thriller, but not one of Rankin's best books
This is the tenth Rankin I have read (seven Rebus novels, one set of Rebus short stories, and Watchman), and to me at least, the joint weakest. Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2008 by Peter Shaw
You may have already read this book
This book seens to have been published in the UK in 1995. It was described as by Ian Rankin writing as Jack Harvey. Read more
Published on 19 July 2007 by boschfan1
TOUGH NUTS
The short overview of the author's life at the start of this edition left me wondering where he learned as much as he seems to know about commando tactics and hand-to-hand... Read more
Published on 2 May 2007 by DAVID BRYSON
A very good thriller (but inconsistent)
As mentioned by others, this book introduces you to the hero, Gordon Reeve, who also features in Rankin's 'Knots & Crosses' as the serial killer that Rebus eventually faces. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2006 by John Matrix
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