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Violent, funny, Scottish...a publisher's dream. (DAILY TELEGRAPH )
Irvine Welsh out of Iain Rankin. (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY )
Tough, in your face...studded with a lot of black humour. (IRISH TIMES )
Tartan Noir (THE INDEPENDENT ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Irvine Welsh out of Iain Rankin. (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY )
Tough, in your face...studded with a lot of black humour. (IRISH TIMES )
Tartan Noir (THE INDEPENDENT ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
THE TIMES
'Sassy, irreverant, stylish'
--This text refers to the
Paperback
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
“Country of the Blind” is the first novel of Christopher Brookmyre’s that I have read and I can say with a great degree of certainty that after thoroughly enjoying this pacey and exciting thriller that I will be coming back for more.
The book features the exploits of maverick journalist Jack Parlabane and apparently this likeable figure first appeared in one of Brookmyre’s earlier books “Quite Ugly one Morning” however for those like myself who haven’t (yet) read this earlier book this later book is perfectly enjoyable in its own right.
Set against the mounting dissatisfaction at the ineffective and over self-indulgent Tory government of John Major all hell breaks loose when Dutch media mogul Roland Voss is found murdered in a rambling country house in Scotland. Next to Voss’s body is that of his murdered wife and their two slain bodyguards lay outside their room. Almost immediately four likely lads 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. The one sensible thing Thomas has done is lodged a letter with a lawyer before the crime has taken place. When this lawyer, Nicole Carrow, turns up at the Police station demanding to see her client the last thing she probably expected would be to have an attempt made on her life within hours.
As I say the book has a fantastic and intriguing storyline with lots of plots and sub-plots but for all this it never gets bogged down in detail or gets too clever for its own good. The writing is exciting and keeps the action bowling along at a cracking pace. The only fault I can pick with it is that Brookmyre does at points “write in Scottish” and I’d much rather imagine these accents than try to figure out what the characters are actually saying.
The characters are great fun and the writing is extremely humorous at times. There’s also a goodly portion of political commentary along the way which probably won’t agree with all readers but certainly for those of a left of centre persuasion it will be both poignant and amusing.
I can only really really recommend this book and I will definitely be trying one of his other books very soon.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Brilliant. Iain Banks meets Nelson de Mille. This is a very fast paced thriller with multiple plots, three dimensional characters and enough acidic one-liners to top up your conversation for months to come. This is by some way his best work to date (which is quite an achievement). Read it now or kick yourself later.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I discovered Chris Brookmyre when I accidentally picked up a copy of "A big boy did it and ran away" prior to going on holiday. The first thirty pages were quite labour intensive however the reward for completing them is astounding. More original than Carl Hiaasen, Brookmyre is unrivalled in terms of satire. His stories are entertaining, at times painfully funny and filled with characters that lack the sort of sacharrin niceness but have humour and valiant vulnerability in equal measure.
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I get it now - I think!
Not really a review , more of a Eureka! moment. I've just read this for the second time and suddenly got the title. Read more
Published 12 months ago by bezza star
Christopher Brookmyre v Colin Bateman
A friend of mine recommended Christopher Brookmyre. As I am a big fan of Colin Bateman I thought I would enjoy this author. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jan
COUNTRY OF THE BLIND - CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
Another superb outing for Brookmyre's character of choice, Jack Parlabane.
A great satire, wonderful insights into modern politician's alter egos through the eyes of a... Read more
A great satire, wonderful insights into modern politician's alter egos through the eyes of a... Read more
Published 16 months ago by I. C. Davidson
Odd and slow to start but still smashing
While I did find this novel to be an entertaining read, it seemed a particularly odd one. As a sequel, it made the mandatory references to the previous novel but without going... Read more
Published on 2 April 2010 by J. R. Johnson-Rollings
Baffled
I am a long term fan of Brookmyre's books the only exceptions being those about Jack Parlabane and those in which he writes in
a strange continuous present tense-almost as if... Read more
a strange continuous present tense-almost as if... Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2010 by J. Lumsden
Should be writing speeches for Gordon Brown
I read Quite Ugly one morning and having run out of Rebus, Elizabeth George and Stuart MacBride books I thought I had found a crime writer to fill the gap
I started to read... Read more
I started to read... Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2008 by A.L.SHEPHERD
There's been a murder - part 2
I have become hooked on Brookmyre even more so now that I have finished 'Country of the Blind'. This book whilst not as good as 'Quite Ugly' is still a right good read, although... Read more
Published on 5 Feb 2005 by Grandpaw Broon
Another cracker...
Having been introduced to Brookmyre about six months ago, I have become an addict and ploughed my way through most of his back catalogue. Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2004 by "garrie23"
Spread the Word
as the head of a one man campaign to bring CB to the attention of everyone i meet (even stopping browsing customers in bookshops to recommend his work), all i can say is buy this... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2003 by Matt Wilkinson
Brookmyre does it again
After Quite Ugly One Moring I couldn't wait to get my teeth into the next in line from Brookmyre. Like some others who have reviewed this I too felt the start slow as the... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2002 by duncan@duncanwallace.co.uk
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