Book Review Iain Banks Complicity

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1993 Abacus Press Spoiler Alerts Iain Banks, who also wrote science fiction as Iain M Banks, was a great Scottish author and a great guest at book readings, signing and conventions. His death was a very sad occasion. Complicity is a thriller, with political overtones. Cameron Colley is a Scottish hack journalist, often in trouble for putting left wing and socialist political views into his stories. He is also an alcoholic, a drug addict and a womanizer. When a brutal serial killer starts targetting the very people Colley has written about, Colley himself becomes a police suspect, which is worrying as he has been getting stories from the killer's phone calls to him, and soon Colley and his friends become targets too. There is a lot of Irving Welsh here, and Banks uses the text to make his own passionate socialist stance known, and it is a fast moving genuinely thrilling adventure with a stunning ending. Arthur Chappell