IAN RANKIN: DoorsOpen, Orion, 2008, 316, pp. €12
Have you ever wanted something that was seemingly unattainable? Something that was owned by somebody else but they didn’t appreciate it in the same way that you would? Would you risk your future to get it?
Set in Scotland, Ian Rankin’s DoorsOpen takes the reader on a fast-paced and exciting trail of friendship, loyalty, betrayal, lust, power and escapism.
Friends, Mike Mackenzie, a selfmade millionaire, Allan Cruikshank, a banker, and Robert Gissing, head of the College of Art, are all art lovers who form the unlikeliest band of thieves when they realise that prized paintings – which they would dearly love to own – are being stored in a warehouse, closed to the public and unappreciated.
Together they plan an elaborate art heist to steal select paintings for their private collections during an ‘Open Doors’ day in the city of Edinburgh; the one day in the year when buildings that are usually closed to the public open their doors to visitors.
However, in order to pull off the perfectly executed plan, the men realise they will need extra help and thus enlist the help of a professional, the city’s infamous criminal, Chib Calloway.
Calloway went to the same school as Mackenzie but headed down a very different path to his classmate, ending up in the underworld of crooks and felons. A class apart to the gentlemen, Calloway is the only person who could provide a criminal mind, and oddly enough, he seems to have taken a liking to the world of art.
IAN RANKIN: Doors Open, Orion, 2008, 316, pp. €12
Have you ever wanted something that was seemingly unattainable? Something that was owned by somebody else but they didn’t appreciate it in the same way that you would? Would you risk your future to get it?
Set in Scotland, Ian Rankin’s Doors Open takes the reader on a fast-paced and exciting trail of friendship, loyalty, betrayal, lust, power and escapism.