Resumo de Country Of The Blind - Christopher Brookmyre

Country of the Blind, published in 1997, is Christopher Brookmyre?s second novel and, like most of his novels, follows the investigative journalist Jack Parlabane as he becomes embroiled in, and seeks to solve, a trademark Brookmyre conspiracy.
Four Glaswegians are arrested for the murder of a media tycoon whilst burgling the country house where he is staying. Two of the four have served a previous sentence for such burglaries; all four readily admit to the burglary (though not the murder) and it looks, at first glance, like as much of an open-and-shut case as it is possible to get.
However, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel and, as in all his stories, nothing is as it first appears. The case soon spirals way beyond a straightforward burglary case and it doesn?t take long before the bodies start piling up. Murder follows attempted murder follows murder. Mixed into the brew are MI5, police corruption and political corruption. This novel has the same beauty as other Brookmyre novels. Whilst the plot races along, the reader is taken into a world of anarchy, tough Glaswegian humour and a back-stabbing world where only a fool trusts anybody. All of this happens in a book that crackles with Brookmyre?s marvellous use of language; a mastery that really shines in the dialogue.
The novel contains many of the themes familiar to fans of Christopher Brookmyre. The phoney toughness of the special agents and mercenaries proves no match for streetwise Scots; likewise the moral bankruptcy of politicians seems that much worse when set against the tough honesty of plain-speaking Glaswegian folk.
If you?ve yet to come across the delights of reading Christopher Brookmyre, imagine Raymond Chandler meets Trainspotting. The author has the same sexy, tough, street poetry approach to his story-telling and the same compassion for his characters despite their obvious failings. Likewise, there is the same delight in seeing the little man and the outsider triumph against the establishment. Like all very good thriller writers - and there aren?t that many who are very good - he also has that mastery for a sense of place. In many ways, the true hero of Brookmyre?s novel is Scotland itself: from the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, to the remote beauty of the highlands and the lochs. This is an author who is definitely worth reading and there can?t be many people who, having read one Brookmyre novel, haven?t become addicted to his books.

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