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Banana Pier
Author: Alex Chisholm
Format: PDF
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Language: English

Banana Pier is a pacy and disturbing novel set in the final frenzied days of Soviet communism in which fiction collides with fact Moral ambiguities which underpin our society are revealed in a story of complex characters and unexpected links between Scotland the Soviet Union and Northern Ireland where global players are seen in their domestic settings and where some dialogue is in the Aberdeen dialect Doric It opens with a confused and obsessive tirade from Tommy MacHardy in conversation with journalist Ian Ross who is investigating covert military activities in Ulster involving Brigadier Bell of TAGOil Ross is determined to reveal the British governments role in Northern Ireland its infiltration of paramilitary groups but attracts the attention of local detectives DI Bonnie Young and DS Dave Millar on the case of blackmail at TAGOil The action switches between Scotland the USSR where former Gordon Highlander Coulthard is introduced to smalltime criminals Zhdanov and Dolgoruky recent associates of computer expert and artist Alexei Grigoryev Coulthard is purchasing scrap hardware from disillusioned Soviet military officers but where are the weapons headed and what has Coulthard got to do with the UK government A gripping novel that will appeal to fans of political thrillers Banana Pier is inspired by some of Alexs favourite authors including John le Carre Henning Mankell and James Hogg whose work The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Alexs novel has been compared to