What if your deepest secret was revealed? Sam Morpeth is growing up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister when their mother goes to prison and watching her dreams of university evaporate. But Sam learns what it is to be truly powerless when a stranger begins to blackmail her. Who would you turn to? Meanwhile, reporter Jack Parlabane has finally got his career back on track, but his success has left him indebted to a volatile, criminal source. Now that debt is being called in, and it could cost him everything. What would you be capable of? Thrown together by a vindictive and mysterious mutual enemy, Sam and Jack are about to discover they might be each other’s only hope.
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Once again here Chris Brookmyre demonstrates his skillful plotting and peerless writing. Want You Gone is a masterclass in complexity, tension and shrewd wit, and many passages bear immediate repetition to fully appreciate their smart structure. Some might consider the first half a bit of a slow burner but I really enjoyed the build up to the story’s climax and some of the more tense points were nerve-shreddingly unbearable!
Jack is at his dry, pessimistic and reluctantly-involved best here, and Sam is a very sympathetic and surprising character. I can’t wait to see what Chris Brookmyre (and Jack!) does next. I am very grateful to NetGalley, Little, Brown Book Group UK and for the opportunity to read the ARC of Want You Gone by one of my favourite authors.
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