The sunshine state of Florida shows its dark, dangerous side in this thrilling tale of crime, abuse and human vulnerability. This Premium eBook edition features an exclusive video interview with the novel's acclaimed author, Irvine Welsh. This ebook has a file size of 62MB and is best downloaded via a broadband connection and enjoyed using Adobe[registered] Digital Editions on your Mac or PC. The premium content will not be able to play on the Sony Reader or other dedicated ebook device. Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancee Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter argument sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall Florida. He meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted by two menacing strangers.
After the ensuing brawl, Lennox finds himself alone with Tianna, the terrified ten-year-old daughter of one of the women, and a sheet of instructions that make him responsible for her immediate safety. Lennox takes her across the state to an exclusive marina on the Gulf of Mexico, and quickly suspects that he has stumbled into a hornet's nest: a gang of organized paedophiles, every bit as threatening as the monster that haunted him back in Edinburgh. His priority is to protect the abused girl, but can the edgy Lennox trust his own instincts? And can he negotiate her inappropriate sexuality, as well as his own mental fragility, while still trying to get to grips with the Edinburgh murder and the emotions it unleashes in him? A novel about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption, "Crime" is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness.
- ISBN10 1409078302
- ISBN13 9781409078302
- Publish Date 31 May 2010 (first published 3 July 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Vintage Digital
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 352
- Language English