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The Blade Artist
- Narrated by: Tam Dean Burn
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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The Blade Artist
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Publisher's Summary
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he's a fake and a con man while others see him as a genuine visionary.
But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge.
But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies - and, most alarmingly, his former self - Francis seems to have other ideas. When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California that indicates her husband's violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad very quickly.
The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel - ultraviolent but curiously redemptive - and it marks the return of one of modern fiction's most infamous, terrifying characters: the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.
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- Dale
- 09-05-2016
Brilliant!
Loved it all, the story, the narration.... Frank Begbie is s classic. Worth your time!
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- Alicia Gilmer
- 21-10-2020
excellence
A little slow to begin but as usual Welsh delivers again and again. Well worth the time.
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- Joanne
- 13-03-2017
Not for the faint of heart
A very gritty book, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Language is very rough, but that's life.
It is the first of the series I have read, but the characters are well developed and I felt they stood alone nicely within this book.
I will read more by this author.
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- Brian
- 20-03-2019
Great narration, fantastic story around Begbie
i Liked how the narrator changed accents and tone between characters, great sequel to T1 and T2 brilliant!
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- Anonymous User
- 17-11-2020
Excellent
Once again a Welsh book is not only read by Tam Dean Burn but explained by him. I was moved to picture the scenes on the beach in California and could feel the slick on the street in a cold Leith. I expected a lot from a standalone book (relatively) about Welsh's most disturbed and fearsome character, but was not at all disappointed.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-04-2022
Oan yersel Franco
Good story for the Begbie fans. While it's refreshing that the narrator is Scottish and gets the Slang spot on he can't do other accents or voices to save himself. That said, Irvine Welsh's visual writing style brings the story into the imagination so vividly it brings the book back up to a 5er.
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