Stonemouth

By: Ian Banks

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: Crime, Novel,

ISBN: 9781408702505

SKU: BE500316823309

Pages: 368

Description: Stewart Gilmour Is Back In Stonemouth. After Five Years In Exile His Presence Is Required At The Funeral Of Patriarch Joe Murston, And Even Though The Last Time Stu Saw The Murstons He Was Running For His Life, Staying Away Might Be Even More Dangerous Than Turning Up. An Estuary Town North Of Aberdeen, Stonemouth, With It's Five Mile Beach, Can Be Beautiful On A Sunny Day. On A Bleak One It Can Seem To Offer Little More Than Seafog, Gangsters, Cheap Drugs And A Suspension Bridge Irresistible To Suicides. And Although There's Supposed To Be A Temporary Truce Between Stewart And The Town's Biggest Crime Family, It's Soon Clear That Only Stewart Is Taking This Promise Of Peace Seriously. Before Long A Quick Drop Into The Cold Grey Stoun Begins To Look Like The Soft Option, And As He Steps Back Into The Minefield Of His Past To Confront His Guilt And All That It Has Lost Him, Stu Uncovers Ever Darker Stories, And His Homecoming Takes A More Lethal Turn Than Even He Had Anticipated. Tough, Funny, Fast-paced And Touching, Stonemouth Cracks Open Adolescence, Love, Brotherhood And Vengeance In A Rite Of Passage Novel Like No Other. Set In A Small Town North Of Aberdeen And Involves Two Warring Crime Families. Our Hero Was Run Out Of Town Five Years Ago And Now He's Back For A Family Funeral -- Some Closeted Skeletons Are About To Appear! Iain Banks.