Even Dogs in the Wild, Ian Rankin
Even Dogs in the Wild, Ian Rankin
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Even Dogs in the Wild

Author: Ian Rankin

Narrator: James Macpherson

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/19/2016


Synopsis

Rebus comes out of retirement...to save his nemesis.

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is feeling the heat. She's investigating the death of a senior government prosecutor, David Minton, who has friends in high places. When one of their own is killed, the powers that be want answers fast. But Clarke is puzzled: if Minton died in a robbery as everyone thinks, why is nothing missing from his home? The answer may lie not in what was taken, but in what was left behind at the scene -- an ominous note.

Malcolm Fox is feeling useless. Shunned by his colleagues because of his past in the Complaints bureau, he's been reassigned to a grunt detail, helping a surveillance team -- one that trusts him even less than his own boss does -- track a notorious Glasgow crime family. Helping Clarke with the Minton case is the only thing that makes Fox feel like a real cop.

Newly minted civilian John Rebus is feeling restless. Being a cop is in his blood and he's failing miserably at retirement. So when Clarke and Fox ask for his help, Rebus doesn't need long to consider his options. But before he can get his bearings, a call comes from Rebus's old nemesis -- "Big Ger" Cafferty. Someone just fired a bullet through his front window -- and sent him a note identical to Minton's. The normally unflappable old gangster is on edge, but for the life of him Cafferty can't figure out who he's wronged. And the only man he trusts with his life is Rebus.

As the cases collide, it's up to Clarke, Fox, and Rebus to connect the dots and save their unlikely ally Cafferty, whose past harbors a shocking secret that implicates Minton's friends in an unspeakable crime. Even Dogs in the Wild reunites crime fiction legend Ian Rankin's greatest characters in an explosive story exploring the darkest corners of our desires.

About Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on August 30, 2024

Is this the finest Rebus book ever written? Well, I’ve yet to read a few of the very early books, but IMO, this is certainly the best of the rest! Rankin writes intelligent, funny, and brilliantly observed crime stories, set in and around Edinburgh. Rebus, the (now) ex-copper who sets out to solve th......more

Goodreads review by James on February 04, 2017

The twentieth book in this great series finds the protagonist, former Edinburgh police detective John Rebus, finally retired. The hard work of detecting has been turned over to younger men and women like Rebus's long-time protege, Siobhan Clarke, and his one-time nemesis, Malcolm Fox. Fox, a former......more

Goodreads review by [ J o ] on April 26, 2020

The twentieth Rebus novel from Rankin, this one concerns a retired John Rebus who is still stuck in his routine of drinking too much IPA and wandering the streets of Edinburgh looking for another pub to drink too much IPA in. In Even Dogs in the Wild, the past comes back to haunt Rebus' old nemesis......more

Goodreads review by . . . _ _ _ . . . on July 01, 2019

-Δολοφονούν έναν Εισαγγελέα στην αρχή του βιβλίου ; - Ναι, αξία ανεκτίμητη, 5 αστεράκια - Βρίσκουν όμως τον δολοφόνο, οπότε ; - Μείον ένα αστεράκι, ήτοι 4 αστεράκια - Είναι όμως ίσως το καλύτερο βιβλίο του Ράνκιν που έχω διαβάσει (ΟΚ, όλα κι όλα, πέντε διάβασα), με έναν δολοφόνο να σκορπά τυφλή εκδίκησ......more