The Impossible Dead, Ian Rankin
The Impossible Dead, Ian Rankin
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The Impossible Dead

Author: Ian Rankin

Narrator: Peter Forbes

Unabridged: 12 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/21/2011


Synopsis

The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and compromised cops, the ones who've made deals with the devil. And sometimes The Complaints must travel.

A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads him back in time to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist. There are secrets buried in the past, and reputations on the line.

In his newest pulse-pounding thriller, Ian Rankin holds up a mirror to an age of fear and paranoia, and shows us something of our own lives reflected there.

About Ian Rankin

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


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on December 03, 2020

Ian Rankin is in fine form with his second Malcolm Fox crime thriller. With terrorism and Scottish Nationalism as it's backdrop, this novel finds Fox having to untangle a complex web of conspiracy and numerous suspects as he's drawn into an investigation of the murder of a former policeman.Excellent......more

Goodreads review by Alex on October 06, 2012

It's a thoroughly predictable line, but a wholly accurate one: Malcolm Fox is not John Rebus. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but the fact is that Fox remains, after two books, a not overly compelling character. In this book his status as an investigator of internal police corruption is repeate......more

Goodreads review by Alex on March 07, 2019

There was a fierce wind blowing in from the North Sea. The water was choppy, and puddles along the promenade offered evidence that the tide was prone to breaking over the sea wall. The gulls overhead looked to be working hard to stay airborne. There was something odd about the design of this waterfr......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on January 06, 2013

I am a dedicated Ian Rankin fan. In the past some may have called me a groupie. Anyway… Rankin is a master of the craft of crime fiction writing. He understands how to create detectives and criminals. He knows how to make settings come alive and become characters in his novels. Fox, Rankin's new prota......more