776 c66574d9-d10e-4e27-ae80-b262fe753aed One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night Christopher Brookmyre calibre (2.82.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 2012-05-01T12:00:00+00:00 <div><p>Like a highball mix of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiassen, Christopher Brookmyre is back with his most lethal book yet: One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night. </p> <p>Gavin Hutchinson had it all planned out. A unique “floating holiday experience” on a converted North Sea oil rig, a haven for tourists who want a vacation but without the hassle of actually going anywhere. And what better way to test out his venture than to host a fifteenth-year high school reunion, the biggest social event of his life, except no one remembers who Gavin is. That, and his wife has discovered his philandering ways and plans to leave Gavin with a very public announcement in front of his assembled guests. Throw in a band of mercenaries who crash the party and you have a wicked farce of a thriller from one of the most original voices in mystery fiction.</p> <p>**</p><h3>From Booklist</h3> <p>Pulp Fiction meets <em>And Then There Were None</em> in this blend of thriller and black comedy. Brookmyre has a gift for keeping the reader continually off balance, sure only that some kind of horrific joke is about to be played, like the severed arm that falls out of the sky on the first day of grouse hunting in the Highlands, clonking a just-retired detective on the head. Two plot threads move toward each other: one involves a loose assemblage of mercenary terrorists, the other a 15-year class reunion organized by a classmate whom no one remembers. The threads knit together, sort of like a noose, when both groups board a North Shore oil rig outfitted for the tourist trade. With a dizzying display of mayhem and violence, the action then shuttles between the mercenaries' plot and the various amorous designs, one-upmanship games, and betrayals enacted by the reunion celebrants. Not for the faint of heart. <em>Connie Fletcher</em><br> <em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p> <h3>Review</h3> <p>"Furiously paced and wonderfully absurd, with more one-liners than a Colombian coke dealer." </p></div> Grove Press 0802139809 B00GW4O59A B0085WH0W6 eng