Country of the Blind by Christopher BrookmyreMy review
rating: 3 of 5 starsIt should be an open and shut case.
Four men have been caught, literally red handed, running from a plush country house in Scotland where the wealthy and influential media baron (and major donor to the Conservative party) Roland Voss has been brutally murdered, along with his wife and two security guards. The four have previous form for burgling similar country houses, so is this just a case of a robbery gone badly wrong or something more sinister? Well, if Jack Parlabane is involved, what do you think?
This was a bit of an odd book, on the whole. I enjoyed it, but I found the author's obsession with Tory sleaze from the early nineties a bit tiresome. Even though I agreed with all of the points he was making, it felt very dated in places. There's quite a long section in the middle of the book with the accused men on the run that loses focus on the fairly convoluted conspiracy that is behind the whole story, and there is less of Parlabane in this book than in the previous one in the sequence.
It's a good read, but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it ten years ago when it first came out.
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