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Violence
Some
A murder investigation with some flashback violence to the past
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content; some adult relationships in the backstory
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific melancholy of a radicalism that didn't find its revolution; how political identity shapes a life
What this book is about
Gavin Miller, a man with a radical political past who fell from academic grace, is found dead on a desolate moorland track. The investigation reveals a network of connections from the 1960s and '70s — student politics, a women's collective, old grievances — and a motive that Banks gradually uncovers through the specific layers of a life spent mostly inside ideology. Peter Robinson's twenty-first Banks novel is particularly interested in what happens to people whose political identities were formed in one era when they have to live in a very different one.
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twenty-first of the Banks series
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