**Author of _The Girl With All the Gifts_ Mike Carey presents the third book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.** You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the strangest thing on yo
Dead Men's Trousers
β Scribed by Irvine Welsh
- Publisher
- Random House;Vintage Digital
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 980 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He's then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and β much to Mark's astonishment β doesn't seem interested in revenge.
Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry β so desperate that even Hibs winning the...
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