The possibility of Rebus returning is conspicuously left open ( SUNDAY TIMES - John Dugdale) The last scene bringing together Rebus and Cafferty, is a sly, ingenious reworking of Holmes's apparently fatal tussle with Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls - another Scottish author attempting to retire his detective but failing, you can't help but notice. As Rankin percipiently observes, the problem is the overworld not the underworld - words which might well sum up the philosophy of Rankin's whole ouevre ( THE SPECTATOR - Antonia Fraser)
Always up to the minute, Rankin has Russian oligarchs or something similar lurking on the streets of Edinburgh and the murder of a Russian poet is directly counterpointed to the death throes of the real life Russian, Litvinenko. The main theme of the book is civic corruption by the power of money, money from whatever source. Rarely has that talent been better displayed than in Exit Music which sees the flawed but redeemingly honest central character staggering towards the finishing line of an inglorious career that has utterly defined his life ( SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY)
Rankin has an unparalleled ability to draw in the reader and make us feel every knock and setback in Inspector Rebus's red-raw life. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Has the Inspector taken a step too far in tying up those loose ends? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, inglorious career, will Rebus even make it that far? Meantime, a brutal and premeditated assault on local gangster 'Big Ger' Cafferty sees Rebus in the frame. The politicians and bankers who run Edinburgh are determined that the case should be closed quickly and clinically.īut the further they dig, the more Rebus and his colleague DS Siobhan Clarke become convinced that they are dealing with something more than a random attack - especially after a particularly nasty second killing.
By apparent coincidence a high-level delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, keen to bring business to Scotland. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus.
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