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Complicity
Complicity | Iain Banks
In Scotland, a self-appointed executioner dispenses justice to fit the crime. Thus the lenient judge who let a rapist go is punished by being raped, while a man who killed is killed in turn.
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A journalist is addicted to a lot of things: speed, cigarettes, his computergame, whisky and his mistress. In between his addictions he writes for a Scottish newspaper and is trapped into a murder investigation. He is beign acccused of being the murderer of all those evil-men-who-deserved-it?
What follows is a smart story about responsibility, friendship, betrayal and yes, complicity. #1001books

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Complicity | Iain Banks

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others