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Original Title:	Crime
ISBN:	0224080539 (ISBN13: 9780224080538)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ray Lennox
Setting:	Florida(United States)

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Welsh’s sizzling new novel, Crime, is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness. Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancée Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter argument sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall Florida. In a seedy bar, Lennox meets two women, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge, which is interrupted by two menacing strangers. After the ensuing brawl, Lennox finds himself alone with Tianna, the terrified ten-year-old daughter of one of the women, and a sheet of instructions that make him responsible for her immediate safety. Lennox takes the girl to an exclusive marina on the Gulf coast, and quickly suspects that he has stumbled into a hornet’s nest: a gang or organized paedophiles, every bit as threatening as the monster that haunted him back in Edinburgh. His priority is to protect the abused girl, but can the edgy Lennox trust his own instincts? And can he negotiate her inappropriate sexuality as well as his own mental fragility? In Crime, Welsh has written a shocking and gripping story about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption.

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Title	:	Crime
Author	:	Irvine Welsh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 344 pages
Published	:	August 5th 2008 by Jonathan Cape (first published July 3rd 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Suspense. Crime. Drama. Classics. Cult Classics

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I'm fine with stories that hit just one note. But I think those stories should probably not go on for too long. And, for the first 125 or 150 pages or so of this 340 page book, I was engaged and involved. However, it dragged and dragged and it really never became something it hadn't already been on page one. I had kept reading, expecting there was going to be some kind of reveal/twist as to why it kept going on in the same fashion--that of disturbed cop disturbed by sex crimes against children

A bit challenging to get into, but once into chapters 3-4 the book gets really interesting. I couldn't put it down towards the end, gritty, hardcore and uncompromising, Irvine Welsh delivers yet another dark but true to life story of the dark side of human nature, would definitely read again.

I was going through a breakup (which I had initiated) when I picked this book up. There was a lot of guilt inside me, a lot of anger at the girl, a continuous feeling of nausea, and an inability to understand why am I feeling like this.Welsh's protagonist, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox showcases this extreme claustrophobia in a crazed stream of consciousness narrative. Sometimes like Marv (from Sin City). It does take some getting used to, but while I was reading it (I savored it for well over

This was the 2nd Irvine Welsh book that I had read which I thought was perfect being that it is the sudo-sequel to Irvine Welsh's Filth. I enjoyed this book but it wasn't what I was expecting. After reading Filth, I expected Crime to be, well... filthy. This book was PG-13 compared to Filth, which was shocking and somewhat disappointing due to my high expectations. But at the same time, I wasn't entirely sure how this book would compare to Filth. Reading Filth, you found out Ray Lennox (the main

I can't write an honest review for this book without mentioning that this is by far the most disturbing work of literature I've ever read. Seriously, I read Guts by Palahniuk and didn't give a fuck. Lolita explores pedophilia through the eyes of a man impossibly in love with a young girl. It talks volumes about love and how it can render you helpless to a point of self-destruction. But Crime is different. Crime is the one part of human nature that we all refuse to talk about. The part that is

Alright. 2/5Apart from the odd okay quote, which are few and far between, this book really isn't that enjoyable. And it's not because it's almost exclusively about pedophilia. I've realized something about Irvine Welsh. He has two types of stories. He has the believable ones that are firmly rooted in a realistic world with realistic reactions and consequences. I love these stories of his. Then he has a second type, which are similar to the other category, but are a little... they swim in

So this was a change from the type of books I normally read and I can't say I regret it. Initially I thought it'd be the typical cop-goes-on-holidays-and-stumbles-onto-horrible-crime and I might say I was rather disappointed since the main character, Ray Lenox, seemed follow the tormented lonely cop stereotype. As the story evolves though, it really delves into the deeper darker corners of the human (adult and childrens' alike) psyche, showing you surprising -and perhaps for some readers