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Loading... Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel (original 2001; edition 2003)by Ian Rankin
Work InformationResurrection Men by Ian Rankin (2001)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Crime DI John Rebus has been sent for remedial training at the Scottish police academy after he throws a cup of tea at his superior; it’s his last chance to remain on the force before receiving more severe disciplinary action. At the academy, he is grouped with several other officers also in trouble for not being “team players,” and they are assigned the job of forming a team themselves and taking another look at an unsolved murder from six years earlier. But not everything is as it seems with this arrangement, and Rebus’s strengths and weaknesses will be tested to their utmost before the assignment is over…. This is the 13th book in the Rebus series, winning the Edgar Award for best novel - as well it should, as this particular entry into the series is both complex, with several intertwining stories, and nail-biting in terms of its suspense. I say that reflexively, though, as I am reading the book decades after its initial publication and I know that there are a dozen or more Rebus books still to come, so the “will he survive this?” element is somewhat blunted for me. Nevertheless, the tensions are palpable throughout the book, and Mr. Rankin ratchets it up superbly. I also liked the sub-story featuring more of DS Siobhan Clarke; I admit to some bias because my middle name is Siobhan (and I would have “shivved” anybody who tried to call me “Shiv,” too!), but really she is becoming a more interesting character, both in terms of her work as a woman in a very sexist working world and with respect to her non-existent (or is it?) private life. I alternate between enjoying and being exasperated with Rebus - how anyone who drinks as much as he does is still alive and not comatose is beyond me - but in this one, I’m much more on the pro-Rebus side; highly recommended, but read the series from the beginning, please! Eine Art Hassliebe verbindet Ian Rankins Detective Inspector John Rebus mit seiner Vorgesetzten Gill Templer. Der Wurf mit einem Teebecher während einer Besprechung bringt ihm die Suspendierung vom Dienst ein. Nicht ganz unerwartet öffnen sich Rebus Die Tore der Finsternis, während er auf einem Polizei-College wieder die Schulbank drücken muss. Das Scottish Police College in Tulliallan ist Ort der Aus- und Fortbildung für junge Polizisten und unbotmäßige alte Hasen. Am Beispiel eines alten ungelösten Mordfalls sollen Rebus und andere gefallene Helden wie die Kollegen Gray, McCullough, Ward und andere lernen, wieder als Team zu arbeiten und sich der zur Gewohnheit gewordenen Alleingänge zu enthalten. Warum allerdings Übungsleiter Tennant den Fall Lomax zu Anschauungszwecken ausgewählt hat, bleibt Rebus ein Rätsel, berührt dieser Fall doch ein verdrängtes traumatisches Erlebnis aus seiner eigenen Karriere. In der Tat gelingt es ihm nicht, seine ungute Verwicklung in dieser Angelegenheit zu verheimlichen. Aber es wird dabei auch klar, dass Rebus nicht nur aus erzieherischen Gründen nach Tulliallan beordert wurde, sondern auch Informationen über schwarze Schafe in den eigenen Reihen beschaffen soll. Seine unorthodoxen Nachforschungen bringen ihn in höchste Gefahr, aus der ihn diesmal auch Kollegin Siobhan Clarke nicht wird befreien können.
Ein Polizeithriller der Extraklasse! Wieder einmal zeigt Ian Rankin jene unübertroffene Geduld bei der Entwicklung des Plots, die für eine beständige Steigerung der Spannung sorgt. Der Leser folgt den Irrwegen und kleinen Ermittlungserfolgen des Helden John Rebus, seinen psychischen Krisen bei der Bespitzelung eigener Kollegen bis zum nervenaufreibenden Showdown. Auch mit diesem fesselnden und intelligenten Thriller hat Ian Rankin seinen Platz unter den besten Krimiautoren der Gegenwart gefestigt! --Ulrich Deurer
Resurrection Men twists and turns its way to a conclusion which is both predictable and unpredictable. Judging by the way the novel has zoomed to the top of the bestseller list, devotees are far from tired of Rebus and his dreadful taste in music and clothes. Rankin is unquestionably an ingenious plotter, but this one seems more about means than end. The line about polite Edinburgh hiding a nasty interior was a wee bit hackneyed when Rebus first preached it. The city is a cleaner place for his efforts; now it is time to do something about these drink-driving policemen. Is contained inIs an adaptation ofHas the adaptationAwards
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HTML: Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's own mistake. Now Rebus can't determine if he's been set up for a fall or if his disgraced classmates are as ruthless as he suspects. When Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke discovers that her investigation of an art dealer's murder is tied to Rebus's inquiry, the two-prot?g? and mentor-join forces. Soon they find themselves in the midst of an even bigger scandal than they had imagined-a plot with conspirators in every corner of Scotland and deadly implications about their colleagues. With the brilliant eye for character and place that earned him the name "the Dickens of Edinburgh," Ian Rankin delivers a page-turning novel of intricate suspense. No library descriptions found. |
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