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Contemporary, classical in form, cool and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Christopher Brookmyre
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Little Brown Uk
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780349112091
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First sentence
“William Connor was standing outside a disused cattleshed on a bright Highland summer's morning, ankle-deep i cowshit, liquidised mercenary raining splashily down about his head from the crisp blue sky above.”
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