Doors Open

Doors Open

Published:
2008-09-18
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ISBN:
9781409106746
Meeting:
2025-11-04 (meeting #106)
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Val
Pages:
272
File size (e-book):
590 KB
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available
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Description:

For the right man, all doors are open...  Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul.  He is looking for something to liven up the days and perhaps give new meaning to his existence.  A chance encounter at an art auction offers him the opportunity to do just that as he settles on a plot to commit a 'perfect crime'.  He intends to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital - the National Gallery of Scotland.  So, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to a lift some of the most valuable artwork around.  But of course, the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed.  But soon after he enters the dark waters of the criminal underworld he realizes that it's very easy to drown...

Author Details:

(AKA Jack Harvey)
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987; the Rebus books are now translated into 22 languages and are bestsellers on several continents.

Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow. He is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award, and he received two Dagger Awards for the year's best short story and the Gold Dagger for Fiction. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, and Edinburgh.

A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts, on Channel 4 in 2002. He received the OBE for services to literature, and opted to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.