It's insightful, sharp and unfortunately all too believable when you consider that the city might well be up for sale to the highest bidder. In this, the final Rebus story, Rankin looks at the relationship between money and power in Scottish politics. The Naming of the Dead covered the period of the G8 summit at Gleneagles in July 2005. In Fleshmarket Close it was the plight of illegal immigrants. Recent Rebus novels have featured a current political hot potato. To end a bad week, local gangster, 'Big Ger' Cafferty is brutally assaulted and Rebus is the prime suspect. A Russian delegation is in Edinburgh and local politicians and bankers are keen that the case should be wrapped up quickly and without too much intrusion into their affairs, but Rebus and Clarke think otherwise, especially when there's a second killing. With only days to go he and DS Siobhan Clarke are trying to clear some of his old unsettled cases when a dissident Russian poet is murdered in what looks very much like a mugging which went too far. In autumn 2006 DI John Rebus is due to retire, much to the relief of his superiors. In the end I do like the accents that make a story even more realistic.Summary: The final Rebus novel sees the retiring detective hunting the killer of a Russian dissident poet and in the frame himself for the assault on a local gangster. Later in the book I did go back to the Echo and it seemed much better. Then I switched to my Bose headset and found it much easier to conectrate and I didn't find the accent a problem at all. I first started listening to this book on my Amazon Echo and found the accent a bit tough due to the extraneous noise, I really had to concentrate. Usually in a book like this it takes a while to get your ear tuned into the accent.
One last thing, the narrator has a distinct Scottish accent. Well, you'll just have to listen to the book to find out. He mainly smokes too much but Rebus also drinks too much, has a terrible diet, has to take breaks walking up steps to the point where you wonder if Ranking is going to have him expire at book's end as an end to the series. One side note to this book is answering the question, is this the last book in the series? The author makes references to Rebus' health throughout the book. Working with his long time sidekick, DS Clark, John works the case(s) in his way, alienating coworkers and the bad guys along the way.
This book has two murders and a solid beating that need solving at the very end of John's career. Rebus is like the other good crime novel series I like, the detective is flawed but you can't help but like him and he gets the crime solved even if not always in a conventional manner. If you've made it this far, you must be a John Rebus series fan.
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