Complicity

Complicity is a novel authored by Iain Banks (ISBN 0349105715). Its two main characters are Cameron Colley, a journalist on a Scottish newspaper called The Caledonian, which resembles The Scotsman, and a serial murderer whose identity is a mystery. The passages dealing with the journalist are written in the first person, and those dealing with the murderer in the second person. The events take place mostly in and around Edinburgh.

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A motion picture called Complicity (or Retribution in some markets) based on the novel was filmed in 2000 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188518/, with scenes filmed in Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth (particularly Inverkeithing, Queensferry, and Inchmickery), and in Dunning, Glenturret, Kippen, Lochgoilhead, Lochailort, Glen Coe, and on Rannoch Moor.

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Sensitive readers should be warned that the book describes several sadistic murders in a fairly detailed manner. Banks has claimed in an interview that Complicity is " bit like The Wasp Factory except without the happy ending and redeeming air of cheerfulness," and The Wasp Factory is quite a macabre book itself http://www.sandm.co.uk/mary/sfjournm/The_Books_Of_Iain_Banks/the_books_of_iain_banks.html.

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Novel: A novel (from French nouvelle, "new") is an extended fictional narrative in prose. Down into the 18th century, the word referred specifically to short fictions of love and intrigue as opposed to romances—epic-length works about love and adventures. Having become one of the major literary genr...

Iain Banks: Iain Menzies Banks writes mainstream novels as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. He was born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; the son of an officer in the Admiralty and a mother who was once a professional ice skater. Banks studied English and Philosophy at the ...

Journalist: A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people....