*** Hide and Seek is a taut and compelling crime thriller featuring the hero of Ian Rankin's widely acclaimed Knots & Crosses.' ***This early John Rebus novel by Ian Rankin is uncommon, especially in such nice collectable condition. ***'A junkie, dead in an Edinburgh squat, cross-shaped on the floor between two burned down candles a girl with a past, running scared and running wild a five-pointed star daubed on the wall - A society ravaged by drugs, and by more than drugs a death which begins to look like murder, but no one cares. A couple of pen marks across the barcode. Small nick to the bottom of the spine of the dustwrapper. Head of spine and edges of dustwrapper just slightly rubbed and creased.
***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £12.99 net. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Head and tail of spine just slightly creased. ***Near fine in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. First impression of the true first edition. This is the city where the shine is wiped from the glitz leaving the shadowy blackness of the reality behind the facade.Book Description Hardcover. Edinburgh certainly has two sides to it – one rich and glitzy that the rich and the tourists see, and the poor dark grim side where the poor and those on the bottom rungs of society – needles hanging from their arms and poison in their blood. Rebus Edinburgh is just as grim as ever – cold damp nights, shadowy figures on the cobbled streets, dim street lights, druggies and the possibility of a black magic cult. Rebus even reads the novel when he’s relaxing from the stresses of work. Many of the character names such as Poole, Carew are directly inspired by the classic novel. In his opening note, Rankin states that he was keen to get readers more closely connected to this Scottish link and so this second book was actually called Hyde and Seek for a working title. In the first novel Knots and Crosses, the book has a close link to the classic Scottish novel Jekyll and Hyde.
Scotland comes alive in this novel and has an interesting link to the city in which it is set.
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