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Complicity
ISBN: 9780385475402
Format: Hardback
Publisher: NAN A TALESE /DOUBLEDAY (NY/MD)
A distinguished judge who once extended leniency to a convicted rapist is himself brutally raped. A pornographer who specializes in snuff films is given a paralyzing injection while a video camera captures it on tape. A wealthy businessman whose negligence caused a fatal explosion is blown up in his own home. This series of savage, "punishment…
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A distinguished judge who once extended leniency to a convicted rapist is himself brutally raped. A pornographer who specializes in snuff films is given a paralyzing injection while a video camera captures it on tape. A wealthy businessman whose negligence caused a fatal explosion is blown up in his own home. This series of savage, "punishment-fits-the-crime" assaults carried out by a self-styled avenger seems to implicate Cameron Colley, a latter-day Gonzo journalist who tries to put as much cheerful subversion into his dispatches for an Edinburgh-based newspaper as he can get away with. Detained by the police as a suspect, Cameron protests that he's being set up, but he cannot hide a certain complicit admiration for the avenger's violent justice. And Cameron knows the only way to get the cops off his back is to lead them to the vigilante himself - a good plan until it becomes clear that the culprit is uncomfortably close to home.
Framing a chilling tale of murder and revenge with larger themes of crime and punishment, this brilliantly constructed thriller invites us to share Cameron's thrill as society's sheltered demons get their comeuppance.
