Blood Hunt

Ian Rankin
Little, Brown & Company (2006)
ISBN 0316009113
Reviewed by Rebecka Vigus for Reader Views (4/06)

Are you looking for intrigue, adventure, international conspiracy, and more? “Blood Hunt” has all of that. Ian Rankin has definitely written a first rate novel.

The book begins with the death of freelance journalist, James Reeve. His brother, Gordon, an ex-SAS that now leads week-end survivalists, flies to California to identify his brother and bring home his remains. What strikes Gordon as odd is that his non-violent, gun hating brother would use a gun to take his own life.

While in California he learns that his brother might have been working on something that led to his death. Also that his death was probably murder and the local authorities could be involved.

Reeves returns to Scotland only to learn that his own home is bugged and his family are in danger. He sends them to a safe place and sets out to discover what his brother had been working on. His discoveries take him to France and the secluded home of another journalist. While there, they come under attack with serious results and Gordon learns that a former SAS team member, whom he believed was dead, is now hunting him.

Although the book is not fast paced, it has enough action and intrigue to keep the reader turning the pages. Ian Rankin has done a marvelous job of bringing international intrigue, murder and mayhem all into one book.

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