Ian Rankin - Westwind
A very disappointing book. To me it felt like Ian Rankin was trying to write a book in the style of Alistair McLean, an exciting thriller. In "Introduction by the author" is being told that the first edition only got one review, a bad one from the Guardian. I can see the reason why. The story is being told by an all knowing narrator. So you don't have to wonder why the characters do things. These characters are very flat, even the main ones; there are a lot of stereotypes. The action is very predictable. You can see things going to happen one or two pages before you get there. There are the standard things in it, pursuing cars, a damsel in distress. The heroes are almost identical and they can survive ordeals like they do in McLean's books. The plot is quite ridiculous. The writer is not serious, in some sentences irony pops up. It must have been quite a lot of fun to give the characters their names. Names stretching from historical figures to philosophers, writers, c