Complicity

Author: Iain Banks

A distinguished judge who once extended leniency to a convicted rapist is himself brutally raped. A pornographer who specializes in snuff films is given a paralyzing injection while a video camera captures it on tape. A wealthy businessman whose negligence caused a fatal explosion is blown up in his own home. This series of savage, “punishment-fits-the-crime” assaults carr….Read More

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