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Be My Enemy

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Having read "a big boy did it and ran away" and "the sacred art of stealing" as well as others I was really looking forward to this book. I don't intend to write a synopsis of the plot but needless to say that Brookmyre keeps to the same winning formula with intrigue, humour, politics and a good dose of violence.

I have to say I really enjoyed this book and found it hard to put it down. But. And isn't there always a but? This novel was not as compelling as previous books. If your a fan of Brookmyre than I would heartily recommend this, otherise I would suggest one of his earlier books which are generally funnier and have a great degree of character development.

"be my enemy" is a great, fun and violent read. Not exactly for kids but any writer who can make Scotland and Glasgow seem interesting and even perhaps a little exotic deserves an award!

Scottish novelist Brookmyre opts for a simpler theme in this book, with the duplicity and intrigue of earlier novels replaced by all-out violence. A psychopathic army sergeant who had been imprisoned for setting up a secret assassination squad is on the loose, and decides to eliminate everyone who might identify his style of operations from before.

To this end, he lures them all to a remote estate in the Highlands, cut off from the outside world, and plans to use his own hit-squad to fake the biggest murder-suicide in history, simultaneously eliminating his enemies and deflecting official suspicion.

Unfortunately, among the guests at the estate are the cunning Jack Parlabane and his friend Tim Vale, who has even more experience of fighting off the bad guys. The result is one torched Scottish mansion, gallons of blood and several headless corpses, before Parlabane and Vale finally discover who it who wants them dead and why. Not one of Brookmyre's most careful novels, but full of his trademark snappy writing and political insights.