"The press tend to talk about bank robberies as being daring, ingenious and audacious. They don't describe many as Dadaist, even the ones who know what 'Dadaist' means. But how else does one explain choreographed dancing gunmen in Buchanan Street, or the surreal methods they use to stay one step ahead of the cops?
Angelique de Xavia is no art critic, but she is a connaisseur of crooks, and she's sure that the heist she got caught up in wasn't the work of the usual sawn-offs-and-black-tigts practitioners. She knows she's dealing with a unique species of thief, and it's her job to hunt him to extinction - though the fact that it's not just his MO that's cute might prove a distraction."

Brookmyre's books according to wikipedia:

Quite Ugly One Morning
Country of the Blind
Not the End of the World
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Boiling a Frog
A Big Boy did it and Ran Away
The Sacred Art of Stealing
Be My Enemy (Or, Fuck This For a Game of Soldiers)
All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
The Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
A Snowball In Hell
Pandaemonium
Where the Bodies Are Buried
When the Devil Drives

Found yet another quotation for my little 'mime' collection (see the journals linked below for more of them):

"The song reached its echoing, shuddering conclusion, the performance with it, (...). This drew warm applause from the gathered spectators, several of whom were vocally of the opinion that it was 'a lot better than that robotic mime shite ye usually get doon Argyle Street'."

Rutiger Knox - Mungo City - A Novel about Globalization
Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms
Lemony Snicket - The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4)
Eoin Colfer - The Wish List
DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
Robert Rankin - Web Site Story
Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!

A well-constructed, well-written story. Brookmyre's style is reminiscent of Hiaasen or Christopher Moore, and very much tounge-in-cheek, but not quite as absurd as Robert Rankin is at times.

on the public bookshelf