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The Impossible Dead: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES
Ian Rankin
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Paperback. Malcolm Fox returns in the stunning second novel in Ian Rankin's series.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 296.
Malcolm Fox returns in the stunning second novel in Ian Rankin's series... 'Criminally good' WOMAN & HOME
From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES.
'Excitingly gripping storytelling' THE TIMES
Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist.
A trail of revelations leads Fox back to 1985, a year of desperate unrest when letter-bombs and poisonous spores were sent to government offices, and kidnappings and murders were plotted. But while the body count rises the clock starts ticking, and a dramatic turn of events sees Fox in mortal danger.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409136293
SKU
9781409136293
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is the multimillion-copy worldwide bestseller of over thirty novels and creator of John Rebus. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages and have been adapted for radio, the stage and the screen. Rankin is the recipient of four Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards, including the Diamond Dagger, the UK's most prestigious award for crime fiction. In the United States, he has won the celebrated Edgar Award and been shortlisted for the Anthony Award. In Europe, he has won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the German Deutscher Krimipreis. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from universities across the UK, is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature, and has received an OBE for his services to literature. Website: IanRankin.net X: @Beathhigh Facebook: IanRankinBooks
Reviews for The Impossible Dead: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES
Fox works for me. Divorced and in his mid-40s, he's quieter than Rebus and warier of confrontation, but no less complex... So doubters be damned: this novel is taut, compulsive and hugely satisfying
John O'Connell
GUARDIAN
This is the second outing for Rankin's Inspector Malcolm Fox, who has the seemingly impossible job of rooting out corrupt colleagues
Henry Sutton
DAILY MIRROR
Proving there's life - and murder - after gloomy Rebus, Rankin pops up with a new cop here, DI Fox
MAIL ON SUNDAY 'LIVE'
Criminally good
Fanny Blake
WOMAN AND HOME
The plot, pacing and characterisation are all handled with impeccable skill, while Rankin infuses his story with subtle social commentary into the bargain. Fans may still mourn Rebus, but Fox is a worthy replacement
BIG ISSUE
No one writes dialogue that seethes with conflict as well as him
Mark Sanderson
EVENING STANDARD
This is Rankin, so it's only to be expected that the plotting should be tight, the dialogue quick-fire, the crimes disturbingly believable, taking place as they do in a world that is so thoroughly and obviously our own, today. What the creator of Rebus also gives us in Fox - initially in the inspector's first outing, The Complaints, and again here is another complex, driven policeman: difficult, largely miserable and lonely, but utterly real'
Alison Flood
THE OBSERVER
What is the most memorable here is the storyline about the deterioration of Fox's father, handled so sensitively as to make Henning Mankell's depiction of the decline of Wallander's father seem histrionic
Jake Kerridge
FINANCIAL TIMES
Fox remains a worthy successor to Rebus, retaining his outsider status and incorruptibility but operating in a much more modern context
Joan Smith
SUNDAY TIMES
Post-Rebus Rankin has lost none of his mastery of excitingly gripping storytelling
Marcel Berlins
THE TIMES
masterful thriller that will have you gripped to the very last page
CANDIS
taut, compulsive and hugely satisfying, with plenty to say about the limits of memory and the dangers of historical idealism. If this is where Rankin is now, I'm not sure I'd want him to be anywhere else
John O'Connell
GUARDIAN
He offers an account of personal and political alienation, the tactics needed to contain terrorism, and the desirability or otherwise of deceit
Natasha Cooper
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Could Ian Rankin ever follow his Rebus success? Happily for his fans, he proves he can
SUNDAY EXPRESS
Last of all, envy stops me from saying more about Ian Rankin's new novel, than that it's impossibly good
Philip Kerr
THE SCOTSMAN
"An addictive, brilliantly written page-turner"
PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH
"A cracking thriller starring Ian Rankin's new hero Malcolm Fox"
Shari Low
DAILY RECORD
John O'Connell
GUARDIAN
This is the second outing for Rankin's Inspector Malcolm Fox, who has the seemingly impossible job of rooting out corrupt colleagues
Henry Sutton
DAILY MIRROR
Proving there's life - and murder - after gloomy Rebus, Rankin pops up with a new cop here, DI Fox
MAIL ON SUNDAY 'LIVE'
Criminally good
Fanny Blake
WOMAN AND HOME
The plot, pacing and characterisation are all handled with impeccable skill, while Rankin infuses his story with subtle social commentary into the bargain. Fans may still mourn Rebus, but Fox is a worthy replacement
BIG ISSUE
No one writes dialogue that seethes with conflict as well as him
Mark Sanderson
EVENING STANDARD
This is Rankin, so it's only to be expected that the plotting should be tight, the dialogue quick-fire, the crimes disturbingly believable, taking place as they do in a world that is so thoroughly and obviously our own, today. What the creator of Rebus also gives us in Fox - initially in the inspector's first outing, The Complaints, and again here is another complex, driven policeman: difficult, largely miserable and lonely, but utterly real'
Alison Flood
THE OBSERVER
What is the most memorable here is the storyline about the deterioration of Fox's father, handled so sensitively as to make Henning Mankell's depiction of the decline of Wallander's father seem histrionic
Jake Kerridge
FINANCIAL TIMES
Fox remains a worthy successor to Rebus, retaining his outsider status and incorruptibility but operating in a much more modern context
Joan Smith
SUNDAY TIMES
Post-Rebus Rankin has lost none of his mastery of excitingly gripping storytelling
Marcel Berlins
THE TIMES
masterful thriller that will have you gripped to the very last page
CANDIS
taut, compulsive and hugely satisfying, with plenty to say about the limits of memory and the dangers of historical idealism. If this is where Rankin is now, I'm not sure I'd want him to be anywhere else
John O'Connell
GUARDIAN
He offers an account of personal and political alienation, the tactics needed to contain terrorism, and the desirability or otherwise of deceit
Natasha Cooper
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Could Ian Rankin ever follow his Rebus success? Happily for his fans, he proves he can
SUNDAY EXPRESS
Last of all, envy stops me from saying more about Ian Rankin's new novel, than that it's impossibly good
Philip Kerr
THE SCOTSMAN
"An addictive, brilliantly written page-turner"
PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH
"A cracking thriller starring Ian Rankin's new hero Malcolm Fox"
Shari Low
DAILY RECORD