Complicity

Ingenious, daring and brilliant * Guardian *Fast moving … tightly plotted * Sunday Times *A stylishly executed and well produced study in fear, loathing and victimisation which moves towards doom in measured steps * Observer *Compelling and sinister … a very good thriller * Glasgow Herald *A remarkable novel … superbly crafted, funny and intelligent * Financial Times *From the brilliant opening … that lands the reader smack in the middle of the first of a series of cold-blooded murders to the final confrontation on a weather-beaten wild island … Complicity is irresistibly compelling * New York Times Book Review *Literate, passionate and well-paced, Complicity succeeds as both an absorbing entertainment and a chilling examination of accountability in a morally bankrupt world * San Francisco Chronicle *An ingeniously constructed tale, done with customary ease, wit and panache. Banks may be a classic story-spinner, purveyor of the proverbial Good Read: but in among all the contrasts, the genre-hopping and the fun, there’s a small, serious common purpose to his work * Scotsman *Brutal in the nightmarishness of its gruesome murders and sexual explicitness but never less than a no-holds-barred blitz of a thriller * Daily Mail *An excellent nervy book, both cool and terrifying at its dark centre where the perfect logic of the protagonist is devoid of pity. Banks’s muscular style and gruesome imagination make this a fast-moving thriller not to be missed * Daily Telegraph *A cocktail of sex, skulduggery and hi-tech mystery, set most convincingly in a Caledonian newsroom. I shall now read everything Banks has written – Jeremy Isaacs * Financial Times *

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.