August 27, 2012

  • Doors Open

    The novel I am reviewing in this post is Doors Open by Ian Rankin which is an excellent thriller which I bought from a carboot sale. Rankin is probably best known for the Rebus series of books but this book is a standalone thriller. It concerns 3 art lovers who plot to steal some paintings from a storage facility owned by a museum in Edinburgh. They are going to replace the paintings with forgeries and one of the men knows he will be called upon to verify the paintings are genuine after the robbery and will lie. Only problem is the forger likes to put things like condoms in his forgeries. Also a gangster who is helping them in exchange for a picture which he is going to an icelandic gangster called Hate to pay a debt has been double crossed like most of the others and now has a picture with a condom in it. One of the artsy friends has fled to Spain along with all the genuine pictures. Also a detective who has an informant in the gangster Chib's gang is hot on their trail. All that though is nothing compared to what Hate is going to do them and he is built like a challenger tank. Not to mention Chib wants to get hold of the forger because he wants him to do more fakes although a bit more genuine looking. I definitely recommend this book.

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