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Excellent fun as Jack and a disparate group of people on a management bonding outward bound trip are besieged by psychopaths bent on total destruction. Full of Brookmyre's typically gruesome sense of humour. Recommended.


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Be My Enemy Christopher Brookmyre 9780349116815 Books Reviews

Having read "a big boy did it and ran away" and "the sacred art of stealing" as well as others I was really looking forward to this book. I don't intend to write a synopsis of the plot but needless to say that Brookmyre keeps to the same winning formula with intrigue, humour, politics and a good dose of violence.
I have to say I really enjoyed this book and found it hard to put it down. But. And isn't there always a but? This novel was not as compelling as previous books. If your a fan of Brookmyre than I would heartily recommend this, otherise I would suggest one of his earlier books which are generally funnier and have a great degree of character development.
"be my enemy" is a great, fun and violent read. Not exactly for kids but any writer who can make Scotland and Glasgow seem interesting and even perhaps a little exotic deserves an award!
Scottish novelist Brookmyre opts for a simpler theme in this book, with the duplicity and intrigue of earlier novels replaced by all-out violence. A psychopathic army sergeant who had been imprisoned for setting up a secret assassination squad is on the loose, and decides to eliminate everyone who might identify his style of operations from before.

To this end, he lures them all to a remote estate in the Highlands, cut off from the outside world, and plans to use his own hit-squad to fake the biggest murder-suicide in history, simultaneously eliminating his enemies and deflecting official suspicion.

Unfortunately, among the guests at the estate are the cunning Jack Parlabane and his friend Tim Vale, who has even more experience of fighting off the bad guys. The result is one torched Scottish mansion, gallons of blood and several headless corpses, before Parlabane and Vale finally discover who it who wants them dead and why. Not one of Brookmyre's most careful novels, but full of his trademark snappy writing and political insights.
Once upon a time, I was having a pint of IPA with a professor of law, who also happened to have served as a QC and a judge before he retired. As both of us were avid fans of the crime fiction genre, I mentioned to him that I was beginning to run out of authors I really took to having worked my way through from Raymond Chandler to James Ellroy, Henning Mankell and all points inbetween and beyond, so, could he recommend anyone to me? He promptly suggested Christopher Brookmyre, but qualified this by saying that 'You might find his imagination a tad twisted, but after what I've had to listen to in my time, Brookmyre sounds disturbingly normal.' Undeterred, I immediately purchased Brookmyre's first novel 'Quite Ugly One Morning' and fell off my chair in a fit of laughter at the end of the first sentence! Maybe it's something about having been a resident of Glasgow that sends the synapses sparking in all sorts of contorted and deranged directions, but, Brookmyre's imagery, ingenuity, insight and acuity are second to none. Furthermore, you must pay attention to the detail. Basically, he has three threads to his works. The first follows the ludicrous, almost infantile but utterly hilarious, adventures of Jack Parlabane. The second the heroic struggle of a Catholic Rangers supporting copper called Angelique de Xavier, in love with a quite magical bank robber, against the evil, thoroughly evil, machinations of an almost reasonable maniac called Simon Darcourt. Then, finally, the really serious stuff in his trilogy covering the accidental private investigator Jasmine Sharp in her random quest to find out where she came from, with a bit of assistance from a Fallen Angel. Brookmyre is nothing short of brilliant, especially with his Jasmine Sharp trilogy (which really ought to be read in sequence to get the full gist. 1'Where the Bodies are Buried', 2 When the Devil Drives', and, best of all, 3 'Flesh Wounds' - 'wounds' as a verb not a noun). He is also the kind of individual who wears his politics up, down and all around his sleeves. Miss him at your peril.
Sometimes I wonder where authors get their ideas, this is a very good read. Finished it in no time at all and my partner read it and really enjoyed it as well.
Parlabane off on a jolly? Fat chance - all action thrills
Haven't finished reading but Brookmyre is one of my very, very favorite mystery/espionage/thriller authors. Intelligent, witty, engaging.
Excellent fun as Jack and a disparate group of people on a management bonding outward bound trip are besieged by psychopaths bent on total destruction. Full of Brookmyre's typically gruesome sense of humour. Recommended.