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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Let It Bleed #1: Let It Bleedby Ian Rankin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In the dark days and biting windstorms of an Edinburgh winter, two drop-out kids dive off the towering Forth Road Bridge. A civic office is spattered by a grisly gun-blast. Two suicides and a murder that just don't add up, unless John Rebus can crunch the numbers. Following a trail that snakes through stark alleys and sad bars, shredded files and lacerated lives, Rebus finds himself up against an airtight, murderous conglomerate on the make in every arena of power. It's leeching the life and soul out of his city and, if it can, him too... Review:"Ian Rankin is up there among the best crime
novelists at work today. His stuff is always taut, gritty, and stirring. At
the heart of it stands Rebus, a character for the ages because he's a cop with
style, wit, and an inalienable sense of the gray area between right and wrong."
Michael Connelly Review:"A brutal but beautifully written series...Rankin pushes
the procedural form well past conventional genre limits." The New York Times
Book Review Review:"A brilliant
series...the work of a master." The San Francisco Chronicle Review:"Have you ever heard of 'a kind of Scottish mafia at the top of some U.S. businesses, persuading people to locate in Scotland'? Me neither; but Ian Rankin makes a good case for this shadowy presence in Let It Bleed, another top-notch procedural in a brooding series. . . . The bleakness is unrelenting, but it quite suits Mr. Rankin, who does his best work in the dark." Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Review:"Rankin portrays an intriguingly complex Scotland, where a good copper, battling frigid winds and cruel manipulators, needs plenty of warming whiskey and selfless friends." Publisher's Weekly Review:"The progenitor – and king – of tartan noir." James Ellroy Review:"Ian Rankin's brilliant series featuring John Rebus is the kind of blistering police procedural that gives the genre a good name." Entertainment Weekly Review:"Rankin's dexterity in juggling plots and threats and motives lights up the darkness with a poet's grace. Reading him is like watching somebody juggle a dozen bottles of single malt without spilling a drop." Kirkus Reviews What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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