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CRIME by
Irvine Welsh
Synopsis: 
Now
bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective
Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by
occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying
child sex
murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his
fiancée Trudi is
only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter
argument
sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall Florida. He meets two
women in
a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted
by two
menacing strangers. After the ensuing brawl, Lennox finds himself alone
with
Tianna, the terrified ten-year-old daughter of one of the women, and a
sheet of
instructions that make him responsible for her immediate safety.Lennox takes her across the state to an exclusive marina on the Gulf of Mexico, and quickly suspects that he has stumbled into a hornet’s nest: a gang of organized paedophiles, every bit as threatening as the monster that haunted him back in Edinburgh. His priority is to protect the abused girl, but can the edgy Lennox trust his own instincts? And can he negotiate her inappropriate sexuality, as well as his own mental fragility, while still trying to get to grips with the Edinburgh murder and the emotions it unleashes in him? A novel about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption, Crime is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness. |
