Rather Be the Devil (Signed Copy)

Ian Rankin

ISBN 10: 140915940X / ISBN 13: 9781409159407

Published by Orion, UK, 2016

About this Item

9781409159407. A first edition Hardcover, in a very good Dust Jacket. SIGNED on the title page, without dedication. Not ex. library, not price clipped. 323 pages. Contents clean, tight and bright. Includes a short story, "Cafferty's Day".

Seller Inventory # 035827

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rather Be the Devil (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: Orion, UK
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140915940X
• ISBN 13: 9781409159407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • signed copy

About this title

Synopsis

Drawn out of retirement, Rebus is haunted by the murder of a young woman forty years ago. Meanwhile, rivalry in Edinburgh's criminal world results in a vicious attack on newcomer Darryl Christie, and rumours of crime boss Big Ger Cafferty’s return.

About the Author

Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into thirty-six languages and are bestsellers worldwide.Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America's celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Award in the USA, won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Hull and the Open University.A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts. Rankin is a number one bestseller in the UK and has received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons. www.ianrankin.net Twitter @Beathhigh