The ManuscriptTwo million dollars in a black bag. The meaning of life hidden on a deviously encrypted web site. And several dozen heavily armed guys with serious existential issues. The hunt is on for the manuscript. This fast moving thriller, set in the USA, includes a gun toting urban professional with a tragic weakness for Internet discussion groups; a chemistry student and hacker turned wildly successful online drug dealer; a pair of slacker post grads with big

Anna Van Heerden

If there is nothing but matter

He is sent home from hospital to die

But now its population is a dying breed

culminating with the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelit ceremony of her mothers churching

Mickey Haller has been in the business a long time

Timothys humiliation seems complete

Someone is staging famous Caravaggio paintings

across the mediterranean on a breathless treasure hunt up country from Bangok

Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler a central character who is shameless but also

and ultimately the town

he begins to question what he wants to achieve