... Complicity by Iain Banks

Several days on the train this week have allowed me to speed through this book.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. The prose flows wonderfully, the story imbues that feeling of wanting to know what happens next, and having been written in 1993 it is quite an insight to the society of the UK back then, albeit fictionalised.

It did remind me somewhat of Michael Marshall's crime books with the whole cynical smoking protagonist thing but it was it's own story and I am interested in reading more of his stuff - once I've cleared  the backlog which is currently weighing down my to-read shelf.
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