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Complicity

Iain Banks

1993299 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1993
first published
  • 1993Little, Brown · 313 pages · ENGISBN 9780316906883
  • 1995N.A. Talese, Doubleday · 299 pages · ENGISBN 9780385475402
  • 1998Abacus · 313 pages · ENGISBN 9780349105710
  • 2000Abacus · 313 pagesISBN 9780349113562
  • 2008Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780748109883
  • 2018Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780349142845
  • 2013Abacus · 320 pagesISBN 9780349139135
  • 2002Simon & Schuster · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780743200189

COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act. A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy for tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - in fact, just a regular day at the office for free-wheeling, substance-abusing Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper. The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago - only to find that the police are checking out a series of bizarre deaths that are happening right now. And Cameron just might know more about it than he'd care to admit ...Involvement; connection; liability - Complicity is a stunting exploration of the morality of greed, corruption and violence, venturing fearlessly into the darker recesses of human purpose.

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