EXIT MUSIC

Book ID/图书代码： 03540007B17090

English Summary/英文概要： It’s late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence a high-level delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, keen to bring business to Scotland. The politicians and bankers who run Edinburgh are determined that the case should be closed quickly and clinically. But the further they dig, the more Rebus and his colleague DS Siobhan Clarke become convinced that they are dealing with something more than a random attack - especially after a particularly nasty second killing. Meantime, a brutal and premeditated assault on local gangster ’Big Ger’ Cafferty sees Rebus in the frame. Has the Inspector taken a step too far in tying up those loose ends? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, inglorious career, will Rebus even make it that far?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 爱丁堡的深秋, 也是侦探雷布斯职业生涯的深秋。当他试图在退休前处理一些未了结的事情时，一起谋杀案发生了。一名持不同政见的俄罗斯诗人被发现死于看起来像抢劫的事件中。显然巧合的是, 一个俄罗斯商人代表团正在城里—团里每个人都打心眼里希望快速地结案。 但是随着一行人更为深入地调查，雷布思和西沃恩•克拉克就越相信他们在接手的这起案件，不仅仅是随机攻击。尤其是在第二次凶杀之后。与此同时，雷布斯目睹了一名当地歹徒遭到残忍和有预谋的袭击，副督察是否在解开谜团走得太远了？他漫长，不光彩的职业生涯还差几日就要结束了，雷布斯能否为自己扳回一局？(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：’Rankin has an unparalleled ability to draw in the reader and make us feel every knock and setback in Inspector Rebus’s red-raw life. Rarely has that talent been better displayed than in Exit Music which sees the flawed but redeemingly honest central character staggering towards the finishing line of an inglorious career that has utterly defined his life’---SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

’the main theme of the book is civic corruption by the power of money, money from whatever source. Always up to the minute, Rankin has Russian oligarchs or something similar lurking on the streets of Edinburgh and the murder of a Russian poet is directly counterpointed to the death throes of the real life Russian, Litvinenko... As Rankin percipiently observes, the problem is the overworld not the underworld - words which might well sum up the philosophy of Rankin’s whole ouevre’---Antonia Fraser THE SPECTATOR

’The last scene bringing together Rebus and Cafferty, is a sly, ingenious reworking of Holmes’s apparently fatal tussle with Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls - another Scottish author attempting to retire his detective but failing, you can’t help but notice. The possibility of Rebus returning is conspicuously left open’---John Dugdale SUNDAY TIMES

’The title Exit Music serves a dual meaning - not just Rebus’s exit from the police but also the possibility of Scotland’s wishing to leave the Union with England after the recent election results...Exit Music is a fitting end to the career of one of the most beguiling characters in the history of crime fiction - not because the lowering of the final curtain finds the audience satisfied but because it leaves them gasping for more’---Marcel Berlins THE TIMES

’It would, of course, be criminally bad form to reveal the precise manner of John Rebus’s final exit - but I think most readers will find the music more or less note-perfect’---Mark Billingham DAILY MAIL

’Throughout the entire series, Rankin’s strength has been his ability to get under the skin of Edinburgh’s pyschogeography: he vividly describes ’a city...of banking and brothels, virtue and vitriol’ where underworld meets overworld. Deftly plotted and awash with sarky one-liners Exit Music is no exception’---METRO

About the Author/作者介绍： 伊恩•兰金，被誉为苏格兰黑色之王，当代最优秀的侦探小说家之一。 让人惊奇的不只是他踏入文坛的年龄，更特别的是，兰金在如此年轻的时候，却创造了一位四十一岁、离婚、酗酒而且烟瘾极大的雷布思警探，并把故事背景设定在复杂的警察世界之中，如果没有足够的文字功力，肯定无法在竞争激烈的英国大众文坛脱颖而出。这本兼具惊悚与悬疑气氛的警探小说深入描写了人类心理层次的黑暗面，加上鲜活的人物个性与深入贴近社会的叙事角度，引起了读者的巨大回响，也鼓舞兰金继续写下去，一写就是二十几个年头。迄今为止，他的十七本系列作品被翻译成三十一国文字出版，兰金也早已成为英国当代最重要的作家之一。 兰金在英国文坛的成就极高，曾获得声望卓著的钱德勒－富布赖特推理文学奖。他曾经四度获选英国犯罪小说作家协会匕首奖，其中《黑与蓝》（Black and Blue）荣获一九九七年英国犯罪小说作家协会金匕首奖，同时获得美国推理小说作家协会爱伦坡奖提名。一九九九年，《死灵魂》（Dead Souls）再获金匕首奖提名；二〇〇四年，《掘墓盗尸人》（Resurrection Men）夺得爱伦坡奖最佳小说奖；二〇〇五、二〇〇六年连续两年赢得英国国家图书奖年度犯罪惊悚小说奖。 二〇〇二年，兰金因其文学贡献获得大英帝国勋章；二〇〇五年获得英国犯罪小说作家协会颁予代表终身成就的钻石匕首奖，成为史上最年轻的钻石匕首奖得主；同年，兰金再获法国推理小说大奖、德国犯罪电影奖与苏格兰杰出人物奖，并于一九九九至二〇〇五年间获得四所大学的荣誉博士学位。 兰金目前与妻子跟两个儿子住在爱丁堡，与著名作家J. K.罗琳比邻而居。在完成“哈利•波特”系列之后，J.K.罗琳开始创作侦探小说，而兰金为她的创作提供了诸多帮助，被罗琳称作侦探小说创作上的领路人。

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, and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-two languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America’s celebrated Edgar Award for ’Resurrection Men’. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. 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’. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.

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